There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.