Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Goldwyn

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

Samuel Beckett

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Sally Ride

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

Wangari Maathai

We can love ourselves by loving the earth.

W. H. Auden

We were put on this earth to make things.

W. H. Auden

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

William Christopher Handy

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Twyla Tharp

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are.

William Graham Sumner

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

Sophie Kinsella

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

Sophie Kinsella

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

Thomas Brooks

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

Gretchen Bleiler

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

Gordon Brown

Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

Henry David Thoreau

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

Jeff Goodell

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Jean Rhys

Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.

Jean de La Fontaine

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

James A. Baldwin

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

Jack W. Szostak

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Jerry Lawler

It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.

Georges Duhamel

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Jefferson Davis

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

Jean Philippe Rameau

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

Eminem

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

Jason Silva

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

Herbert Marcuse

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence.

Halldor Laxness

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

Horace

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

Arthur Miller

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.