Comets Quotes

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You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine. — Max Lucado
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One… — Elaine Scarry
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the… — Jostein Gaarder
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, weâ€™re all too eager to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.… — Mark Twain
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agencyâ€™s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It… — Stephen Hawking
I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return — Mark Twain
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the… — Isaac Newton
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth.… — Erica Jong
Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have… — Sam Kean
Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . — Andrew Marvell
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, and from his… — John Milton
What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and… — Knut Hamsun
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where… — William Beebe
We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there.… — Buzz Aldrin
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when… — Isaac D'Israeli
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray… — Lisa Alther

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