World Quotes - Page 251

People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

To travel is to possess the world

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.

Join the army and see the next world.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.

In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?” I asked my teacher. “There is,” my teacher answered me. “Well, what is it?” I asked. “It’s...” began my teacher and suddenly fell silent. I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was silent. And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent. We’re both standing and silent. Ho-la-la! We’re both standing and silent. Ho-le-le! Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent! 16-17 July 1937

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

None of us are really that big of a deal in the world - but you are your dog's everything.