“Out to sea, the calm lagoon waters were darkening, while the comets overhead glowed brighter, omens in the gloaming.” — Julian May Copy Share Image
Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot… — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has… — Tycho Brahe 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
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
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
It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“All the other stars keep to their courses, and go along just like trains on their rails, but comets can go absolutely… — Tove Jansson 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
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
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
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by a lot of failed ecosystems; the moon being one, Mars, Venus. Theres evidence of water on Mars and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have… — Vine Deloria Jr 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
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock… — William Congreve 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
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Yes, we all die but there's a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like… — Jonathan Tropper 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
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
I’ve been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love, I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind,… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image