Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes mischief whenever it appears. — Bathsua Makin 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
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!' — Clement Clarke Moore Copy Share Image
“Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.” — Lydia Netzer Copy Share Image
Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities? — George Phillips Bond Copy Share Image
Yes, comets! The icebergs of the sky, By jackknifing from one to the next at breakneck speed, we might just get some… — Zapp Brannigan Copy Share Image
“As when one contemplated it from heights of a precipice The comets will tenderly lean on the forests before striking them” — Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia Copy Share Image
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the… — Isaac Newton 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
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
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then-… — Jim Morrison 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
“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
“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
And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew… — Sarah Dessen 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
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
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
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of… — Albertus Magnus 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
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
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
“Did you know that shooting stars are made when stars die?' Mina asked. 'Really? I thought they were stars going on a… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The height of the Chacoan culture lasted from A.D. 1055 to 1083, corresponding to the period of most intense building activity. This… — J. McKim Malville 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
“Alone in the observatory late one night, I heard the telephone ring persistently. When I answered, a voice, betraying a well-advanced state… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.” — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image