Meteors Quotes

• Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Burn
  • Great Men
  • Meteors

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

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Behinds
  • Dust
  • Arches

• Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Light
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts

• New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Roof

• Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • She
  • High
  • Night

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

  

  Scott Adams
  • Innovation
  • Corporations
  • Individualism

• Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Consuming
  • Meteors
  • LIght The World

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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Stars
  • Writers
  • Meteors

• The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Women
  • Occupy
  • Elevated

• "A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Earth
  • Hits
  • Meteors