Open Cluster Stars

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

    A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.
    Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    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)

    The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
    They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
    Like a great shadow’s last embellishment.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)