Top 10 Meteors Quotes - Quoted Daily

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Dust, Arches, Meteors

Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.146, HMH

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Meteors, Thunderbolts

Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.4383, e-artnow

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

Jack London

London, Meteors, Sparks

Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Scott Adams

Innovation, Meteors, Way

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

John Milton

Wind, Meteors, Streaming

John Milton, John Rice (1766). “Paradise Lost ... With notes of various authors, by John Rice”, p.29

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Stars, May, Meteors

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Voltaire

Christian, Atheism, Meteors

Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.45, Lulu.com

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

Kenneth Lacovara

Dinosaurs, Meteors, Eras

"What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.