The Man Who Fell To Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth may refer to:

  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (novel), the 1963 science fiction novel by Walter Tevis
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (film), the 1976 film based on the novel, starring David Bowie and directed by Nicolas Roeg
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (TV program), the 1987 television adaptation of the novel

Famous quotes containing the words man, fell and/or earth:

    “If there is a man white as marble
    Sits in a wood, in the greenest part,
    Brooding sounds of the images of death,
    So there is a man in black space
    Sits in nothing that we know,
    Brooding sounds of river noises....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself—for it is from the soil, both from its depth and from its surface, that a river has its beginning.”
    —Laura Gilpin (1891–1979)