“The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact." "What did you say?" said Sniff.… — Tove Jansson 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
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that… — Arthur Alfred Lynch 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
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon… — Joan Bennett Copy Share Image
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.” — David H. Levy Copy Share Image
What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“But imagine,” said Mars, “being a comet. I want you to imagine a divine force in someone that pushes them through the… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
When you look at Earth from that one picture, the one from space, it's really a rather attractive thing. I have nothing… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas,… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest… — Edmond Halley 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
“Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now." "Well,… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
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