Sentence examples for touch the star from inspiring English sources

I wanted to touch the star, but I was too weak.

At one point, Sherlock sits in a cinema and tuts at the inaccuracies in a film based on his adventures: in a neat postmodern touch, the star of this film-within-a-film is Nicholas Rowe, who played the character as a teenager in Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes.

"You feel like you can touch the stars".

Just another man who overreaches himself, who thinks he can touch the stars and fails.

Human speech, Flaubert said, is "like a cracked kettle on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to touch the stars to tears".

A possibly apocryphal anecdote recalls him bragging to a group of Viennese musicians, invoking Horace: "sublimi feriam sidera vertice" ("With head held high, I will touch the stars").

They never touch the stars, either.

Greeting visitors at the end of the long driveway is a wooden placard that reads, "Those who reach touch the stars" .

By doing so, we will empower those kids to pursue the American dream -- as Jay and the Americans sang it more than one-half a century ago, "To take a giant step and reach right up and touch the stars".

Her breathing slowed as she fell into a deeper sleep, humbled by her inability to touch the stars, though she would use them for aim, charting her map on the grid and in her heart.

Only in America, land of opportunity Can a poor boy like me Can a kid who's washing cars Take a giant step and reach right up and touch the stars.