World Quotes - Page 331

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.

Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.

I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.