“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”
John Boyne book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
“The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
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“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Source: Selected Poems
“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“More stars fall from the loosened sky.”
Pluraque laxato ceciderunt sidera caelo.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 145
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) American photographer
w:Dorothy Norman recorded a conversation between Stieglitz and a man, looking at one of his 'Equivalents' prints
Source: 'Minor White, A Living Remembrance', Dorothy Norman, in 'Aperture', 1984, p. 9.
“The swarm of ducks so darkens the sky that poor Europe does not know which way to go”
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879) French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor
original French text: 'La nuée des canards obscurcissant tellement l'air que la pauvre Europe ne sait plus quel chemin prendre' <br class="br">title/caption in Daumier's print; published in 'La Caricature', 1833-35; number 3601 in the catalogue raisonné by Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré, Vol. 28 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969); as quoted on samfoxschool http://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/node/11263#footnote-1-ref <br class="br">The word 'canards' refers to physical ducks; it also means unfounded rumors or exaggerated stories. Ducks, symbolizing rumors was a visual motif Daumier used both before and after this print <br class="br">1830's
“Be different than the world, otherwise, there are lots of stars in the sky.”
Lucky Gupta (1998) Internet celebrity
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“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 1