“It was a patient business, talking comets down to the speed of life.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.” — David H. Levy Copy Share Image
By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd… — Jodi Picoult 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
I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around. — Ross Perot 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just… — Gregory Maguire 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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they… — Bertolt Brecht 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
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
“Our hands have held the life of every atom, and our eyes read the stories, of each soul. Our mouths have spoken… — Hendrith Smith 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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.” — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
