Meteors Quotes

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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 star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — 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
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others… — Washington Irving
You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than… — Robinson Jeffers
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
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy… — Edmond Halley
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
Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad… — Loren Eiseley
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion. — Henry David Thoreau
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 isnâ€™t just something that happens to us â€” a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain â€” itâ€™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

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