World Quotes - Page 394

Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.

We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.