Top 33 Quotes About Meteorites
#1. One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. Belgium always seems to get invaded, fall prey to meteorites or get infested by alien fungus or something . . .
Genevieve Cogman
#4. People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.
Whitfield Diffie
#6. If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.
Chuck Grassley
#7. Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?
Iannis Xenakis
#8. In the beginning there was dust, and one day the great, improbable experiment of life will return to dust. We are not secure. Just as our ultimate genesis was entangled with the birth of suns, and the terrifying tumult of asteroids and meteorites, so we are still bound to the cosmos.
Richard Fortey
#9. I had not yet learned to appreciate the slowly gliding drift of identical things; chunks of time spun past me like meteorites in a universe predicated on repetition.
Don DeLillo
#10. The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.
Arthur C. Clarke
#11. Meteorites fell through the night sky like a gentle sleet of icefire,
Peter F. Hamilton
#12. It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.
Manohla Dargis
#13. I like critics with strong opinions.
Chuck Eddy
#14. There's a respected theory in astronomy called Panspermia," Glinn finally continued. "It holds that life may have spread through the galaxy in bacteria or spores carried on meteorites or in clouds of dust. But
Douglas Preston
#15. I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
Francis Ford Coppola
#16. Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#17. In one of my novels I described a secret factory, hidden away in the Ural Mountains, which produced artificial meteorites. The dream of the Soviet military's high command: bombarding the United States with artificial meteorites, while making people believe they were real ones.
Andrey Kurkov
#18. The goal wasn't to be good. It was to be just good enough.
Kami Garcia
#19. I had no idea how fast we were going but i could have sworn on a stack of bibles, I saw Jesus when my face was inches from the wall on the third straightaway
Shey Stahl
#20. Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.
Brett Ratner
#21. Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
Keith Caserta
#22. For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
Guillermo Del Toro
#23. Throughout the universe
Life does wander
Appearing here and there
Sometimes popping out of the woodwork
Other times carried on the wings
Of Mercury and meteorites
Robert Zwilling
#24. No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#25. The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
#26. It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.
Michio Kaku
#27. If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.
Ruta Sepetys
#28. Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.
Hassan Blasim
#29. But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#30. Meteorites don't fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way. - John W. Campbell
Arthur C. Clarke
#31. Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several years beforehand by heat waves, by winds, by meteorites, in short, by an infinity of phenomena.
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
#32. Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#33. The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea.
Jandy Nelson