World Quotes - Page 905

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

I never really had any friends my age. I've grown up in the adult world all my life.

The character is important, of course, but I like when there's intelligence in a movie. I like when it's, how do you say, sensible. So for me a film is very subjective, and it's a point of view. I like to be brought into a world of a director.

As an actor, the last thing you ever want to end up on is just a procedural show where you're just a talking head. There's nothing worse than just spitting out words. Words interrupt performance. Performance is king in my world, when it comes to why I'm in this business.

From the very beginning, when you go into Scientology your world narrows down very quickly.

You know, it's a long world.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1% is a world where that tiny, tiny fraction has enormous power. And it's that inequality in political power that enables this corrupted system to happen.

I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves to be artists, because - it seems so quaint, but when I picked up a camera with a group of other women, I'm not gonna say it was a radical act, but we were certainly doing it in some sort of defiance of, or reaction to, a male-dominated world of painting.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

I tend to start with a fantastical premise, and then I place it in the world we know. Or, really, it places itself. Honestly, I feel that I have very little control of the magical aspect, as that's just what comes out for me.

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize.

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?