#meteor

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

— Jack London

#atom #dust #every #glow #i

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. ↗

— January Jones

#i #marine #meteorologist #wanted

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist. ↗

— Willard Scott

#i #meteorologist #southern #southern baptist

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death #meteors #natural-phenomena #news #sensations

Your face says so much in so little time, you let everything you're thinking bloom upon your face, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather watch than you pass through five moods in five minutes. What glorious weather. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#love #meteorology #love

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#any #been #before #beginning #comet

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. ↗

— Paula Yates

#always #ankle #end #end of the world #films

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#back #blew #born #described #everything

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ↗

— Jack London

#meteor #life

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days. ↗

— E. B. White

#bent #days #effect #ill #knowingly