Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso 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
“Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis 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
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
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway... — Redman 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
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
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
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
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around. — Ross Perot 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
[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
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
I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime. — Nancy Grace 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
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
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