World Quotes - Page 1028

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It's all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.

Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

There is a world inside the world.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life.

When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility that some UFOs are alien does not seem quite so farfetched. Serious-minded scientists in astronomy and other disciplines estimate there could be billions of planets in the universe, and millions that could harbor life. If even a few of those planets were occupied by technological civilizations, their ability (if not desire) to explore other worlds, such as ours, must be a possibility.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.