And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. - George Chapman
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve? - Steven Morrissey
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. - Kathy Mattea
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. - Janet Reno
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand. - Charles Morgan
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? - Harold Pinter
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. - Stendhal
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. - Andreas Capellanus
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. - Oliver Reed
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. - Norman Ralph Augustine
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. - Franz Kafka
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. - Georges Cuvier
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. - Thomas de Quincey
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. - R. Buckminster Fuller