Phases Of The Moon Quotes:

When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where I was the waxing gibbous: fat with wealth and success. There have been other seasons when my happiness was like the waning crescent and I watched my joy fade away slowly, merging with the atmosphere around me as if it never existed. Then I felt as if I was left with nothing more than an illusion, but happiness returns in time and glows once more in corpulent fullness. It's time that makes the difference.

- Amy Neftzger

topic: Past, Moon, Differences, Waxing, Wealth And Success

From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the sphere rotates, and how within a few hours it shows all its sides successively ... and we shall observe various points on the surface of the Earth for several minutes and from different sides very closely. This picture is so majestic, attractive and infinitely varied that I wish with all my soul that you and I could see it.

- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

source: "The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth". Book by William E. Burrows (p. 147), July 10, 2007.

topic: Moon, Soul, Wish, Phases Of The Moon

The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.

- David Berlinski

source: David Berlinski (2011). “A Tour of the Calculus”, p.119, Vintage

topic: Moon, Miracle, Limits, Phases Of The Moon

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is "America's ex-wife."

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Football, Moon, Men, Vary, Sunspots

Jazz musicians can be great teachers of business. Their creativity is not dependent on their mood, it does not have to be coaxed out of them, it has nothing to do with the phases of the moon or even how they feel that day. They go on stage and start playing. Being creative is their job.

- John Kao

source: Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Creativity, Phases Of The Moon