World Quotes - Page 921

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

If i can do just one tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world

In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obviously, that has its own place, and it's a beautiful way of doing it. But I don't think I am the first to point out that in Africa, the more buzzing the sound is, the more it indicates the other world - the spirit world.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

[The Women's Room] was the first thing I read that explained a lot of the feelings I was having and a lot of the rage and the feeling uncomfortable in my body and knowing that I was feeling a certain way in the world, but I didn't have the language for it.

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.