World Quotes - Page 869

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

There really is no vacation from the world in which we live.

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.

...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff of this world, and haunted by the possibility, and the impossibility, of a better one.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.

The world is always ruled by a maniac. - Baba Yaga

In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

You can buy almost anything anyplace in the world. You can get it delivered in 24 hours. You can pay for it on credit or just by swiping something. So, I don't know that the world is worse off, in that context, than before.

I'm worried about the world because of nuclear proliferation.

I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

There are lots of threats to you in the world. There's the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can't sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.