Nature Quote by Jodi Picoult

“All the other stars keep to their courses, and go along just like trains on their rails, but comets can go absolutely anywhere; they…

— Tove Jansson

“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

— David H. Levy

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for…

— Charles Spurgeon

“the tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze.…

— Kelly Easton

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

— Maria Mitchell

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary…

— Bill Vaughan

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

— George Phillips Bond

“Yes, we all die but there's a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet trail that…

— Stewart Stafford

“And the passing Comet, we wish-would cleanse our earth.”

— Danikelii

“For no one knows what lies under the sands of the world's great deserts. No one knows how many times poor Earth has reeled…

— Doris Lessing

However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

— William Shakespeare