Quotes of: Down-to-earth Keyword

Edith: [Angry] Where were you in 1292 A.D.? John Oldman: [Calm] Where were you a year ago today?

The Man from Earth

John Oldman: And that's what I taught, but a talking snake made a lady eat an apple, so we're screwed.

The Man from Earth

Dan: I'm going home and watch Star Trek for a dose of sanity.

The Man from Earth

Edith: [Upset by one of John's claims] Were you? John Oldman: [Gentle] If I said no, could you ever be sure?

The Man from Earth

John Oldman: Every 10 years or so, when people start to notice I don't age, I move on.

The Man from Earth

Santa: Haven't you heard of peace on earth and goodwill toward men? Lock, Shock, Barrel: NO!

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Paris Driver: Don't blind people usually wear dark glasses? Blind Woman: Do they? I've never seen a blind person.

Night on Earth

Charlotte Lucas: What on earth have you done to poor Mr. Darcy? Elizabeth Bennet: I have no idea.

Pride & Prejudice

Finn McGovern: [to John Rooney] You rule this town as God rules the Earth. You give, and you take away. [He is hustled out]

Road to Perdition

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved gre...

Walter Lang

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Saint Ambrose

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

Story Musgrave

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

William James

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

King George V

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

George Soros

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Neale Donald Walsch

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Tom Hanks

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Deepak Chopra

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

Eric Alterman