Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
~By Malcom X ~
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.
~By Shoeless Joe Jackson ~
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
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.
~By King George V ~
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
~By Don Delillo ~
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~By Joan Crawford ~
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
~By Jim Harrison ~
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
~By Karl Popper ~
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
~By Dennis Banks ~
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
~By Olive Schreiner ~
The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.
~By Robert Crippen ~
In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery.
~By Tom DeLay ~
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
~By Kate Chopin ~
The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
~By Penelope Keith ~
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
~By Warren Rudman ~
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
~By Helen Gahagan ~
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
~By Pericles ~
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
~By John Astin ~
For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
~By Thomas Malthus ~
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.
~By Franz Kafka ~
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
~By Sitting Bull ~
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
~By James Lovelock ~
A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
~By Bobby Knight ~
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
~By Agnes de Mille ~
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
~By Michael Ledeen ~
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
~By Valentina Tereshkova ~
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
~By Judy Collins ~
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.
~By Marge Kennedy ~
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?
~By Russ Carnahan ~
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
~By John Donne ~
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
~By William Howard Taft ~
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
~By Edith Piaf ~
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
~By Walter Reisch ~
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
~By Henry Lawson ~
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
~By St. Jerome ~
Each person has their own calling on this Earth.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
~By Susan George ~
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!
~By Casper Van Dien ~
My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
~By Barry Cornwall ~
My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!
~By Brett Somers ~
When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.
~By George Duke ~
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
~By John Grierson ~
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
~By George W. Bush ~
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.
~By Georges Cuvier ~
Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
~By J. Carter Brown ~
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and out of that Earth Day a lot of students got involved in saving the environment, or trying to.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
~By Langston Hughes ~
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.
~By Marc Garneau ~
Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
~By Henry Beston ~
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
~By Jesus Christ ~
One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?
~By Greg Dworkin ~
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
~By Jon Stewart ~
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~By Samuel Adams ~
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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