Open Cluster Stars

Famous quotes containing the words open, cluster and/or stars:

“And now that the end is near
The segments of the trip swing open like an orange.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)

“It is the stars,
The stars above us, govern our conditions.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)