World Quotes - Page 563

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.