Comet Quotes

You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen. - Don Brownlee

You don't have to change the course of the comet very much to miss the keyhole if you do it a number of years in advance. - Clark Chapman

Yes, comets! The icebergs of the sky, By jackknifing from one to the next at breakneck speed, we might just get some kinda gravity boost.....Or something. - Zapp Brannigan

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? / This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. - Bible

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! / Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. - Bible

Without a doubt our planet will be hit again many times in the future, unless we can prevent it from happening. We're not sure yet what the best way to do this is, but in order to figure that out, we've really got to better understand what comets and asteroids are made of and how they're put together. So, in a sense, Deep Impact is our latest attempt to get to know our potential enemies. - Ken Wilson

With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt. - Bible

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. - Sir Philip Sidney

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? / Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up; / To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. - Bible