“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.” — David H. Levy Copy Share Image
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“Asteroids are craggy chunks of rock. Comets are balls of dirt, ice, and frozen gases. And meteors are, quite simply, whatever falls… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“And here I sit with my stamps in a complete muddle, and nobody has bothered to tell me what it's all about."… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“This has completely disturbed my peace," he complained. "A philosopher should be protected against the rude happenings of everyday life." "Never mind,"… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Because it's one of those things I never expected in my lifetime," he told me. "Like a comet. Or world peace. I'm… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway... — Redman Copy Share Image
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.” — Julian May Copy Share Image
“If you like comets, you should like fallen angels. The fallen angels were the ones unafraid to love, unafraid to fall, ready… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Comets are what we are after because stars well stars just don't live long in the earth eyelids. - Loverboi — Kenneth Melvin Jr Copy Share Image
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
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