Venus Quotes

The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable. (K. Barry Sharpless)
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. View quote
Jonathan Swift
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less. View quote
Robert Kagan
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. View quote
Mary Pickford
Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted. View quote
Tibullus
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. View quote
Alexander Pope
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace. View quote
Callimachus
Sorry ... my mind was wandering ... One time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for. View quote
Steven Wright
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilisation that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our souffles. View quote
Nicholas Kurti
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs, and many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful. View quote
Charles Fort
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word "disease" was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. "Which disease?" View quote
John Ralston Saul
Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said. "Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm. "Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug. The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree. View quote
Rick Riordan
Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm. View quote
Rick Riordan
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. View quote
Junot Diaz
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. View quote
Lactantius
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. View quote
Lactantius
I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing. (Elena Vesnina)
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius. View quote
Nina Arianda
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. View quote
Mary Pickford
Blinkin Aaahhhh, you lost your arms in battle, but you grew some nice boobs (Blinkin gropes the Venus De Milo statue left behind after creditors take away Loxley Castle) View quote
Mel Brooks
The attack should not have happened, of course. The rice farmer sergeant had been perfectly right; the Federation could not afford to risk its own great cites to punish the villagers of Venus. He was right-from his viewpoint. A rice farmer has one logic; the men who live by and for power have another and entirely different logic. Their lives are built on tenuous assumptions, fragile as reputation; they could not afford to ignore a challenge to their power-the Federation could not afford not to punish the insolent colonists. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein