As when one contemplated it from heights of a precipice…

“The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact." "What did you say?" said Sniff. Moomintroll went…

— Tove Jansson

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might…

— Clarence Darrow

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and…

— Lisa Alther

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

— William Shakespeare

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of…

— Pierre Bayle

What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter…

— Isaac Newton

“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

— David H. Levy

Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,…

— Isaac D'Israeli

That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered…

— Joan Bennett

Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in…

— Mae Jemison

Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he…

— Pierre Bayle

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…

— Edward Bellamy

It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“But imagine,” said Mars, “being a comet. I want you to imagine a divine force in someone that pushes them through the world, infinitely,…

— Karl Kristian Flores