Perseid Meteors Quotes & Sayings

ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money. — Stefan Zweig

Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable. — Alix Kates Shulman

In the great meteor shower of August, the Perseid, I wail all day for the shooting stars I miss. They're out there showering down, committing hari-kiri in a flame of fatal attraction, and hissing perhaps into the ocean. But at dawn what looks like a blue dome clamps down over me like a lid on a pot. The stars and planets could smash and I'd never know. Only a piece of ashen moon occasionally climbs up or down the inside of the dome, and our local star without surcease explodes on our heads. We have really only that one light, one source for all power, and yet we must turn away from it by universal decree. Nobody here on the planet seems aware of that strange, powerful taboo, that we all walk about carefully averting our faces, this way and that, lest our eyes be blasted forever. — Annie Dillard

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. — James Gibbons Huneker

I enjoy being influenced by other writers. — Steve Toltz

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there — Theodore Roosevelt

I only want to keep moving up and up in terms of quality and be careful with perception. I don't just want to do things that are the pretty girl with lots of makeup, I want to get into the gritty stuff and get down and dirty and dark and really feed my soul and not my vanity. — Nina Dobrev