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
I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes.… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“The Romans and Greeks believed that the appearance of comets, meteors, and meteor showers was portentous. They were signs that something good… — Kayla Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet,… — Jamie Ford Copy Share Image
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling,… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
[On the Dating Handbook] 'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's… — David Cross Copy Share Image
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“The Muskrat was still lying in his hammock and thinking. "Good afternoon, Uncle Muskrat!" said Moomintroll. "Do you know that things have… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman,… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image