World Quotes - Page 567

I write to find out about how the world sings.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

There is a new world coming and this new world is very rude.

The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation.

The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.