Comets Quotes

• There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

  Jamie Ford

  Heart, Long, People

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

  William Shakespeare

  Wonder, Fame

  William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

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

  David H. Levy

  Cat, Tails, Want

  David H. Levy (2003). “David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Sky, Crystals

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.928, Oxford University Press

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

  Isaac Newton

  Beautiful, God, Powerful

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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• I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me - ever.

  Jim Morrison

  Stars, Looks, Gone

  "Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip" by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams, (p. 152), 2003.

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• The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Light, Sky, Dawn

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.323, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Wonderful, Curious

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

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Halley's Comet, Beggar

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Stars, Eye

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• The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

  Winston Churchill

  Safety, Cost, Aviation

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• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  Ann Druyan

  Storm, Patterns, Spirit

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

  Bathsua Makin

  Gender, Mischief

  1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.

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• As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

  Torquato Tasso

  Hair, Gleam, Sanguine

  Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Knowledge, Glasses

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Education, Stars, Clever

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• She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.

  Holly Black

  Falling In Love, Sky, Burning

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

  Isaac Newton

  Order, World, Orbs

  'Opticks' (1730 ed.) bk. 3, pt. 1, qu. 28

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• Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear night, out of all the countless lights that twinkle and shine, there will come one. That star will be seen in a blaze, burning a path of light across the roof of the earth, a great comet.

  Brian Jacques

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.12, Penguin

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• I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway.

  Redman

  Friday, Rap, Cat

  Song: Cosmic Slop

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

  Max Lucado

  Shining, Heaven, Shots

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Maria Mitchell

  Trying, Littles, Matter

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

  David Oyelowo

  Feet, Tea, Roles

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• We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

  Gore Vidal

  Stars, Two, Orbit

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 09, 2016

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