I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be… — Louie Psihoyos 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
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated. — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have… — J. B. Priestley 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
[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
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
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope 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
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the… — Jack Handey 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
“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
“First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And in a moment of pure magic, our lips touched tenderly and sensitively. Then time, space, and meteors paused...” — Avijeet Das 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
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
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