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  • I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. -- Zooey Deschanel
  • Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. -- Noam Chomsky
  • To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. -- Joshua Slocum
  • Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. -- Thomas Fuller
  • All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune. -- Jean Racine
  • The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. -- Antoine-Marin Lemierre
  • Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. -- William Shakespeare
  • When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life. -- Will Gluck
  • Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen! -- Camille Flammarion
  • Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers. -- Bob Dylan
  • You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing." "Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too." Percy turned pale. "Excuse me? -- Rick Riordan
  • There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related." Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What? -- Rick Riordan
  • We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration. -- William Herschel
  • I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it. -- Zooey Deschanel
  • Ever heard the tale of Neptune's Children? -- Mark Simo
  • He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck. -- Publilius Syrus
  • He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood. -- Mike Brown
  • Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune -- Naoko Takeuchi
  • If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found. -- Percival Lowell
  • Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the same fate. First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker. -- Rick Riordan
  • I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. -- David Gallagher
  • I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. -- David Gallagher
  • If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions. -- Lucretius
  • When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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