Meteor Quotes

36 Meteor quotes by 31 unique authors

From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the… — Tycho Brahe
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and… — J. B. Priestley
I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride… — Pat Robertson
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. — Guy de Maupassant
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a… — Victor Hugo
A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart.… — Christine Lahti
The big, huge meteor headed toward the Earth. Could nothing stop it? Maybe Bob could. He was suddenly on top of the meteor-through some kind… — Jack Handey
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon… — George Frisbie Hoar
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make:… — Leslie Jamison
A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've… — Brad Alan Lewis
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. — Robert Burns
There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage… — Michael Palin
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is… — Samuel Johnson
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when… — John Burroughs
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
Our love could change the orbit of the earth. So, if a meteor ever comes hurtling towards earth with the guarantee of destruction, top scientists… — Dalai Lama
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 only six people… — Paula Yates
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. — Jack London
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke… — Steven Spielberg
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. — Tucker Max
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled… — Jack London
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust. — Virginia Woolf
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the… — Salman Rushdie

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