World Quotes - Page 400

I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.

I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

So what if I can't spell Armaggedon? ... it's not the end of the world.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

America is not the world.

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination

There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.