Quotes About Meteor

Waterloo is the hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than a cloud, there is something of the meteor.

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 left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

He was a meteor. Harriet was more of a mountain. In this world, we need both.

Companies remain intent on maximising profits, personal salaries, bonuses and career opportunities. Conferences on mindfulness, ethics and vision seem little more than exercises in public relations. These gestures seem trivial in comparison to the core aims of corporations. A meteor will land one day and extinguish them.

I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity — such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen — stationary meteor-radiants, and a reported growth of hair on the bald head of a mummy — and 'Did the girl swallow the octopus?

How about Panspermia?" Winston asked. "The notion that life on earth was seeded from another planet by a meteor or cosmic dust? Panspermia is considered a scientifically valid possibility to explain the existence of life on earth.

There's always a connection, a reason because of which people enter your orbit, bristling with dark energy like a meteor intent on collision.

Muistatko? Meteori suhahti terävänä kohden metsäämme, en pelännyt kätesi oli ympärilläni Ilma jäähtyi, eläimet kuolivat, painauduin lähemmäs sinua ja olin onnellinen

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

Il est dans le caractère français de s'enthousiasmer, de se colérer, de se passionner pour le météore du moment, pour les bâtons flottants de l'actualité. Les êtres collectifs, les peuples, seraient-ils donc sans mémoire?

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible -- though I know not in what proportion -- still remains.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on, when we see one, is only a trail of debris.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

for anon, 640 I felt upmounted in that region Where falling stars dart their artillery forth, And eagles struggle with the buffeting north That balances the heavy meteor-stone;– Felt too

Whatever the answer, one senses one thing clearly: the man from whose mind this chaotic vision emanated did not purchase his "outlook on life" in a dime store, but came into this chapel like a meteor and left behind him the smell of cosmic sulphur...And century after century men come here bleating like goats, staring wide eyed at these testimonies of human passion and intelligence...