Comets Quotes

Comets Quote of the day

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

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

Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

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

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 for them to get through it.

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 seas first demonstrated.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.

Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .

I remember for that one moment, I believe I was hitch hiking on one of those comets, falling so fast that I'd surely burn away before I ever hit the ground.

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.

Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed

Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.