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Venus favors the bold. -- Ovid
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. -- Mary Pickford
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. -- John Barrymore
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. -- Joan D. Vinge
Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can. -- Serena Williams
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus! -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion. -- Publilius Syrus
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking -- Jacque Fresco
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. -- Martin Amis
The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about. -- Jacque Fresco
I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows. -- Jim Butcher
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is. -- Jacque Fresco
The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity. -- Jacque Fresco
It's always good to be recognized, you know, for sport. I think being up there with Venus and Serena, I think, that's awesome. I'm excited. I'm happy that I am improving and getting better, and that I can be here. -- Sloane Stephens
Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves. -- Jacque Fresco
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love. -- John Ralston Saul
You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman. -- George Edward Woodberry
The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in. -- Doris Lessing
Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus. -- Stephen Hawking
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things. -- Richard Dawkins
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. -- A. S. Byatt
Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life. -- Seth Shostak
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. -- Lactantius
I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers. -- Chris Pratt
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Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius. -- Nina Arianda
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. -- Ethel Barrymore
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter. -- Buzz Aldrin
In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface. -- Seth Shostak
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys. -- Chris Pratt
Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici. -- Bayard Taylor
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. -- Michio Kaku
Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it. -- Isabel Allende
Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms. -- C. S. Lewis
Venus can see at night without eyes. -- Christina Stead
Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted. -- Tibullus
Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood -- Robert Greene
A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough. -- Serena Williams
Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus. -- Apuleius
I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.... -- Tori Amos
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. -- Mary Pickford
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love. -- Tennessee Williams
All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead.... -- Allen Tate
Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm. -- Rick Riordan
My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus! -- Richard M. Nixon
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist. -- Henry Adams
The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for. -- Randy Savage
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. -- Alexander Pope
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore, -- JWoww
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. -- Tanith Lee
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something. -- Eva Green
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. -- Tom Verlaine
I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen. -- John Keats
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus. -- Terre Thaemlitz
Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm. -- Allen Tate
We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side. -- Serena Williams
The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once. -- Andre Brie
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. -- Jean Racine
I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing. -- Elena Vesnina
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less. -- Robert Kagan
The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. -- David Mitchell
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. -- Ben Jonson
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look. -- Anna Kournikova
Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you. -- Matthias Corvinus
Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus. -- Demetra George
Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains. -- Kathleen Raine
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. -- Jacque Fresco
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. -- Heinrich Heine
Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for. -- Steven Wright
A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero. -- Nostradamus
Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury. -- Tracy Austin
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer. -- Mason Cooley
In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman. -- Abdellatif Kechiche
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. -- Jonathan Swift
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time. -- D. H. Lawrence
Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus. -- Craig Ferguson
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.) -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever. -- Euripides
Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey. -- Edmund Spenser
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. -- Marge Piercy
Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me. -- Serena Williams
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus. -- Edward Gibbon
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing. -- Mark Twain
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile -- Edmund Spenser
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil. -- Michel de Montaigne
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods. -- Ovid
Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful. -- Charles Fort
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. -- Junot Diaz
I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else. -- Ted Dexter
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
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips. -- Horace
But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way! -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man. -- Janet Flanner
The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover. -- Bill Maher
When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size. -- Ellen Stofan
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will. -- Eugene Delacroix
There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. -- Lactantius
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move -- Ovid
Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish. -- Quentin Crisp
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace. -- Callimachus
Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day. -- John Dryden
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflÃ©s. -- Nicholas Kurti
I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil. -- Charles Baudelaire
Men can be in love with literary figures, with poetic and mythological figures, but let them meet with Artemis, with Venus, with any of the goddesses of love, and then they start hurling moral judgments. -- Anais Nin
That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night. -- Catherynne M. Valente

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