Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth’s marvels, beneath the dust of habit. – Salman Rushdie
When I do fall in love, I’ll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I’d lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love. – Peter Andre
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid – one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence – hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. – Seth Shostak
‘E.T.’ was far-fetched. ‘E.T.’ was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda Galaxy to do that. – Seth Shostak
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken – you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years. – Tom Hanks
I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth. – Verne Troyer
Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I’m not just saying that! – Taylor Lautner
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. – Ted Cruz
The poet’s spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. – Salvatore Quasimodo
If you’re one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don’t leave early. You just don’t. If it’s a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don’t leave early. – Willie Geist
If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmentalist of some kind, which is why he’d really like to be remembered for something almost nobody knows he did: naming Earth Day. It agitated him to look up Earth Day on Wikipedia recently and not see his name anywhere. So a few days ago, I added it. – Sarah Koenig
I’ve long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana. – Tamsin Greig
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with. – Terence McKenna
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know. – W. H. Auden
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? – Taslima Nasrin
Scientists didn’t discover the noble gas helium – the second most common element in the universe – on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903. – Sam Kean
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it’ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That’s life on Planet Earth. And I’m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there? – Tina Fey
I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as ‘Mama’ was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, ‘Where’s Mama?’ Like she should be with me. – Vicki Lawrence
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas Moore
I like Canadians. Who doesn’t like Canadians? It’s amazing! They’re the friendliest people on earth. – Sarah Rafferty
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves. – Susan Griffin
Who on earth is going to use ‘utilize’ in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type ‘z,’ when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can’t think of a sentence in which ‘use’ can’t replace ‘utilize.’ – Susan Orlean
When I’m hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand. – Tommy Mottola
I think we have a responsibility to shape the zeitgeist with the movies we put out there. Because ‘After Earth’ isn’t going to do it. ‘The Expendables 3’ isn’t going to do it. You could make one million amazing films for the amount of money they spend on those films. I get frustrated. – Will Poulter
There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it. – Wilson Greatbatch