World Quotes - Page 937

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

People like to say that Plutarch's is a really "personal" voice, but in truth Plutarch tells us very little about his life. His voice is personable but never personal. It feels intimate because he's addressing the world as we experience it, at this level, a human level, rather than way up here where very few of us live.

Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You don't belong here. That's not how we do things." I think that's problematic.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.

I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.

A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.

The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).