Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so.… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's… — Paula Yates 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
[On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer.” — Bernard Jan Copy Share Image
So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth. — Christopher Martenson Copy Share Image
Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts. — Frank Dempster Sherman Copy Share Image
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image