The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: ‘Moby-Dick.’ – A. N. Wilson
You wouldn’t want to land on the Moon and launch to Mars. That would be very inefficient. – Charles Duke
I didn’t really like my Sydney accent – nobody likes the sound of their own voice – and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I’ve only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven’t been influenced by the accents of some far-off land. – Callan McAuliffe
News reports don’t look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time. – Abigail Disney
Producer’s Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. – Alfred Marshall
My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment. – Alice Waters
The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history. – Ahmet Davutoglu
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. – Bruce Babbitt
Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes – I feel weird without it. – Alexa Chung
You can’t learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don’t, the only way of finding out is having it land. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
The very first lead work that I made is called ‘Land Sea and Air,’ and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead. – Antony Gormley
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away. – Anthony Trollope
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That’s quite the loaded word, ‘we.’ – Caroline Knapp
You’re not going to get every part, so you can’t base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job. – Autumn Reeser
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. – Andrew Young
I can’t see potato chips being popular where there’s not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn’t easy or convenient. – Ann Leckie
Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination on their land. – Najib Mikati
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain. – Mario Testino
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who’s really going to administer this stuff. – Neil Abercrombie
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. – Cory Lidle
‘Star Wars’ came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce. – Damian Loeb
For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty. – Douglas Sirk
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? – Edward Hoagland