After Irving made his flat-Earth remark, he subsequently seemed to dance around the subject, implying that the whole thing was a joke.
"He was too good for this earth," Lincoln remarked.
As she plummeted towards the earth, Daly remarked that, "The trust had gone".
"After God, developers were the first to build up the earth," he once remarked to me at his private island's bar.
The prints, preserved in volcanic ash, were so striking that as she brushed away the earth from one, she remarked, "Now this is really something to put on the mantelpiece".
She was also very down-to-earth, having famously remarked "Oh Christ!" when informed in 2007 that she had won the Nobel prize.
"Every minute, hundreds of thousands of people die on this earth," General Giap is said to have remarked after the war with France.
He also remarked how Earth-like the vista appeared, joking: "You would really be forgiven for thinking that Nasa was trying to pull a fast one, and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture - a little Los Angeles smog coming in there".
That's why we use taste metaphors: sweet love, sour grapes, bitter experience, pungent remarks, astringent humor and salt of the earth, etc.
Kizirian later remarked, "There is no nation on this earth that didn't send representatives to see the new post office".
What on earth happened to the gallant tradition of "pozzing": making positive remarks?
