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"—Roll on, ye Stars! exult in youthful prime, Mark with bright curves the printless steps of Time;
Near and more near your beamy cars approach, And lessening orbs on lessening orbs encroach;—"
Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, Part I: The Economy of Vegetation, Canto IV, lines 379-383, 1791.

Traynor: Commander. Are you all right? It was fairly intense up here. I can only imagine what it was like down on that moon.

"Dr. Darwin informs us, that the reason why the bosom of a beautiful woman is an object of such peculiar delight, 
arises from hence,—that all our first pleasurable sensations of warmth, sustenance, and repose, are derived from 
this interesting source. This theory had a fair run, until some one happened to reply, that all who were brought up 
by hand had derived their first pleasurable sensations from a very different source, and yet that not one of all these 
had ever been known to evince any very rapturous or amatory emotions at the sight of a wooden spoon!"
Rev. C. C. Colton, Lacon: Many things in a few words to those who think, 1820, p. 304.

Shepard: I thought you'd be more concerned about EDI.

"At which—Heaven be praised! for it affords us a breathing space—the doors gently open, as if a breath of the gentlest 
and holiest zephyr had wafted them apart, and three figures enter. First, comes our Lady of Purity; whose brows are 
bound with fillets of the whitest lamb's wool; whose hair is as an avalanche of the driven snow; and in whose hand 
reposes the white quill of a virgin goose. Following her, but with a statelier step, comes our Lady of Chastity; on whose 
brow is set like a turret of burning but unwasting fire a diadem of icicles; her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, 
if they touch you, freeze you to the bone. Close behind her, sheltering indeed in the shadow of her more stately sisters, 
comes our Lady of Modesty, frailest and fairest of the three; whose face is only shown as the young moon shows when 
it is thin and sickle-shaped and half hidden among clouds."
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 3, 1928.

Dreamcatcher — Lucky Strike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM7ro_nBCHI

"It is classic Hollywood protocol that the actors be quartered separately from the technicians ("apes" or "gorillas" as 
they are affectionately called)—allegedly in apprehension of the leading lady being gang-banged to death by a raving 
horde of drunken grips and gaffers, thus seriously jeopardizing the pic's all important completion date."
Terry Southern, Blue Movie, 1970, p. 66. [The actors and the apes in the same hotel?!? Are you out of your nut!?!]