World Quotes - Page 386

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.

Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.

Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.

Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world.

Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.