Once in a Blue Moon Quotes

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Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.

- Hilda Lewis

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

- William Blake

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

- Frederic Lawrence Knowles

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

- E. E. Cummings

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

- George Carlin

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

- Anton Chekhov

The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

- Jill McCorkle

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

- Zane Grey

A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

- Nick Turse

If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.

- Barbara Kingsolver

I sometimes think that as singles it's easy to bind to this mentality that my future husband's going to ride up on a white horse, I'll know that he's the one, and we'll start our life together. That happens to people once in a blue moon. I have heard of that - never really dated anyone and then this person comes along - but it's not probable that that would happen.

- Rebecca St. James

We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives.

- Laurel Burch

Once in a blue moon someone like you comes along.

- Van Morrison

I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight...

- Randy Moss

[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

- H. L. Mencken

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

- John Fogerty

Blue Moon,
You saw me standing alone,
Without a dream in my heart,
Without a love of my own.

- Lorenz Hart

12 Literary Quotes About The Moon

A Blue Moon occurs when there are two full moons in one calendar month.

To celebrate today’s blue moon, I have chosen 12 of my favourite quotes inspired by the moon.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ~Frederick L. Knowles
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring – and all of the acts carried out – on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories. All it did was embrace the heavy past with a cool, measured detachment. On the moon there was neither air nor wind. Its vacuum was perfect for preserving memories unscathed. No one could unlock the heart of the moon. ~Haruki Murakami
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. ~E.E. Cummings
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe. ~Lokesh Fouzdar
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out. ~William Blake
It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters. ~Pat Conroy
Moonlight is sculpture. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin
So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night , Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. ~Lord Byron
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.~Sylvia Plath

See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. And once in a while, people may even take your breath away.

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The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) graded 400 blue diamonds and only four of the 400 were graded (fancy) vivid blue. So even amongst this extremely rare class of blue diamonds, to get one vivid blue, 12 carats, internally flawless, is once in a blue moon.
– David Bennett

The market for vivid blue diamonds of this level, it's so rare. Each stone is individual, in a sense, the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) graded 400 blue diamonds and only four of the 400 were graded (fancy) vivid blue. So even amongst this extremely rare class of blue diamonds, to get one vivid blue, 12 carats, internally flawless, is once in a blue moon.

– David Bennett

“He always had some experiment or another on the go, usually involving boiling liquids and unpleasant smells. Always something bubbling in the cauldron or cooking in the small stone oven. One wall was hidden behind rows of metal cages, set one upon the other; containing animals and birds and reptiles and a few other things not so easily identified. Because you never knew when you'd need a subject to try something out on. And of course there were shelves and shelves of glass jars, holding herbs and insect parts, mandrake root and other disturbing things. Some of the things in the jars were still moving. Because alchemy's like that.”

- Simon R. Green, Once in a Blue Moon