Bill Knott Quotes

And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

Bill Knott

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• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Brother

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Earth

• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Earth
  • City

• If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Earth

• You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Earth
  • Poverty

• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • World
  • Earth
  • Peace

• An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'

  

  Edward Carey
  • Up
  • Earth

• We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones - and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Earth
  • Islamic

• It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Space

• There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Earth
  • Risk

• Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Time
  • Earth

• A star on earth - a star in heaven.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Earth
  • Star
  • Heaven

• He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Mind
  • War
  • Earth

• The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Question
  • Wonder

• I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

  

  Bill Knott
  • Earth
  • Soles
  • Dead Man