Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and…

“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

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

— David H. Levy

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

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

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

— William Shakespeare

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

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

“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