“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Variant: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran
“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Variant: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 6 : The Bus
Context: There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.”
Manuel Puig (1932–1990) Argentine author and screenwriter
Source: Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays
Ralph Ellison book Three Days Before the Shooting...
Source: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), pp. 680-1.
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Variant: The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)