Downtoearth Quotes
More Downtoearth Quotes
Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter 1, p. 30 (On Robert Owen)
[Looper's] sort of a down-to-earth Blade Runner: it feels real. It's that style of sci-fi that could actually exist in 30 years.
joseph gordon levitt— Los Angeles Times, 2012
Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.
xi jinping— As quoted in "Xi Jinping meets model workers" in cctv.com English (1 May 2013)
" Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach."
anthony de mello— p. 80 (One Minute Nonsense (1992))
It is not quite a political bad dream, or metaphysical adventure, or cosmic comedy in the form of a spy story, but it has something of all these. Anyway, it is unique, and also, what is not all that much easier to bring about, magnetically readable … James Bond and Gabriel Syme differ in innumerable ways, but they share a quality of romance , of color and chivalry, almost of myth , that attracts me a lot more deeply than anything about the down-to-earth and up-to-the-minute heroes of writers like Len Deighton and John Le Carré.
— Kingsley Amis, discussing The Man Who Was Thursday in The New York Times (13 October 1968), as quoted in Defiant Joy : The Remarkable Life & Impact of G.K. Chesterton (2011) by Kevin Belmonte, p. 137 - 138
Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
— John Kenneth Galbraith (1977) The Age of Uncertainty, p. 30 (On Robert Owen)
