World Quotes - Page 854

The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don't do that.

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

Dreams shape the world

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can imagine what has happened before or after. Sometimes they are worded as being a part of a story, especially the paintings where characters are in conversation.

I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way I know to turn it around is to get everyone excited about what it is to innovate again.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.