World Quotes - Page 782

I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be a great sustaining force.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

Do you really expect me to fall apart every time another woman throws herself at you? Because, if that's so, I'll be a nervous wreck before the honeymoon's over. Although, if they do it in front of me..." He went still. "Did you just propose to me?" She bristled. "Do you have a problem with that?" The scoreboard lit up, and he gave the world a high five. "God, I love you.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.