Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in the brightest daylight, you see a night sky and stars.
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Related Someone had once told her that if you look up at the sky from the bottom of a mine shaft, even in th... NEIL GAIMAN You see the night sky and billions of stars stare down at you. In their eyes there are billions of p... KAYLA RAE When you look up in the sky at night and see that one star shining brightly, You know that a friend ... MADELIN M. Look at that, Vera.” I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars. “Can you tell wh... A.S. KING If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars ar... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c... MARGARET ATWOOD When you look up to the sky and wonder why? Think of the stars burning bright ,as ascended souls shi... EVAN KEOUGH Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the... JACK TEMPCHIN I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Anytime that you look up to the clear sky and see colors in it, you should be suspecting that you ar... STEVEN MAGEE Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see. SHERLOCK HOLMES You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living.... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up t... TOM HANKS You're not limited to the sky as seen from the Earth. You can actually go up into the sky and fly th... MARK WEBB When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwor... ANUSHA ATUKORALA And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give. NEIL GAIMAN shoot for the stars,but even if you do half as good, you'll end up playing in the sky JONATHAN CLAUDIO LUNA once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up LEONARDO DA VINCI At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo... NATALIE WOOD We will join our palms together, fingers intertwined in each other, and look at the stars in the nig... AVIJEET DAS Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky... GRACE WILLOWS How can you tell which is a real fishing boat and which is not from up in the sky at night? ALAN CHAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It ma... JIMMY WALKER Sometime if you look up in the sky.
There is a path of your destiny. MAZ NO PARADISE She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap... NEIL GAIMAN I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I coul... AKSHAY VASU It's raised up in the sky. You can look up to it and see the moving elements. BRIAN MEUNIER I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in t... CORINNE DUYVIS A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky. CHINESE PROVERBS How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched SCOTT STARS AND DANDELIONS Deep in the blue sky, like pebbles at the bottom of the sea, lie... MISUZU KANEKO At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and ... JOHN GREEN Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying... JOE HILL One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta... MICHIO KAKU The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble w... ROSEMARY MAHONEY If you’ve ever had a rational thought or asked Why? or gazed at the night sky in silent wonder, th... ERIC WEINER It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make. SHEL SILVERSTEIN You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark ... AMIT RAY It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn ... NEIL GAIMAN Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "... NEIL GAIMAN All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. JOSEPH HELLER It was neither the time, nor the place for a star to shine. For a star shines at night in the sky, n... AHMAD TALAL ASIF You lose sight of the Stars... if you're looking for the Sky. NAVRAS NEGATIVEONE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck i... ANONYMOUS A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer... JANE GOLDMAN We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the differe... PAULO COELHO Her grandmother used to tell her that a pink sky meant someone in the distance had just fallen in lo... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you... MARGARET ATWOOD And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish. SARAH J. MAAS Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in... THOMAS CAMPBELL Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. JOHN BOYNE The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a h... ALICE HOFFMAN All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm l... JAY CROWNOVER No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered th... LLEWELYN POWYS What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching her. "A dragon." When ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing ... TIBULLUS For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin ... RENEE AHDIEH Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. RICK YANCEY I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to an... PTOLEMY Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multit... PTOLEMY Sherlock Holmes and Matthew Watson were on a camping and hiking trip.
They had gone to bed and were ... UNKNOWN There is a night school where you shall meet great teachers: The sky! When the night falls, the shin... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Competence is the most effective tool to hide madness. Black holes actually appear to be the brighte... KIRTIDA GAUTAM When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual ... TYCHO BRAHE When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual ... TYCHO BRAHE Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to s... TIMOTHY NORR All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travele... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY We are going from looking at a few stars a night to an all-sky survey where over a year we will sear... BRUCE BETTS Old stars fade, new stars light up the sky ALLEN JOHNSON There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th... VICTOR HUGO Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's che... RICK RIORDAN No, Sky. You didn't tell her everything…you told you everything. Those things happened to you, not... COLLEEN HOOVER Even when you're at the South Pole, you still have to look up to see the stars. FLORD VIOUZRE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky. LAINI TAYLOR There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things ... HUBERT SELBY JR. just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse. wouldn’t you think it a crim... AMANDA LOVELACE We listen to music wherever we go. But sometimes we should look up into the sky on a starry night an... SS038NICK The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she... KIERSTEN WHITE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet... SYLVAIN REYNARD She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell—even... KATHERINE MCINTYRE When we look at the sky on a clear sunny day we see a lovely blue, and then at night, we would then ... GARY F EVANS... Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, tw... SAI BABA A sky full of stars and he was staring at her. —ATTICUS ATTICUS POETRY Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so ... ABBIE CORNISH There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them throu... JODI PICOULT The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in... IDINA MENZEL I will love you and only you until the stars are shaken out of the sky. RACHEL ALEXANDER I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of ... PAUL BOGARD Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then. ALBERT CAMUS If the splendor of thousands of suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, even that would not... BHAGAVAD GITA Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're a... REBECCA MCNUTT
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Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t... NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway. NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe... NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found. NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy... NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, ... NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri... NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic... NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a... NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ... NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th... NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge... NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l... NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu... NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe... NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ... NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ... NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge... NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w... NEIL GAIMAN