An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.
The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.
The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.
When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
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.
I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
A lot of the science fiction that I grew up reading was written when we still thought that Venus might be an oceanic planet.
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.
My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.
The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.
The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
All the sea-gods are dead.
You, Venus, come home
To your salt maidenhead.
Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.
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.
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
My gravest secret is that I really did fake the moon landing. On Venus!
We don't know that Venus had oceans, but there's every reason to believe it did.
He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.
I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
I'll never be able to quantify how important 'Venus' was for me or my career. I ticked a huge box.
When I was in my 20s, I started frequenting record stores, and there was one in particular called Tropicalia in Furs in New York City. It's closed now, but it was one of those magical places where you would walk in, and the owner would start playing you records and not let you leave. It was such an education.
If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'
The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.
There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.
Venus, thy eternal sway
All the race of men obey.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
He is not a lover who does not love for ever.
"Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm.
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
Of your loves couplement:
And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
Venus's life story across 5,000 years reminds us not to trivialise the power of desire: the ancients were right to never underestimate its influence.
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic,
Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix,
Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.
I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for.
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
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