Orrery Quotes & Sayings

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

I know, it was a little bit out of control, but hey. It was all fun. — Elisha Cuthbert

September suddenly realized something. "But Ell, Orrery begins with O! How can you know so much about it?"
The Wyverary soared high, his neck stretching into a long red ribbon, full of words and pies and relief and flying.
"I'm growing up!" he cried. — Catherynne M Valente

I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion. — Jack Canfield

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery. — Kit Williams

I want to live. I didn't have time to die. — Tionne Watkins

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery. — David Rittenhouse

We are our own worst inhibitors — Laird Hamilton

You sure have a high opinion of yourself, thinking it's going to happen again. — Richelle Mead

Pythagoras argued that the souls of poets pass not from this world
but lodge themselves in the breastwork of swans.

Let it be, then. Let some of us withdraw to the keel-shaped bones
to the tilted orrery of the thorax. But I think: if poets coalesce as swans
we're mostly in the feet of swans, black as drums

pressing our rageful webbing into the earth's flank. — Kiki Petrosino

the king of kind hearts and polite fellows — Herman Melville

Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people - and afraid the rest of the world will find out. — Daniel Keyes