- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
- Dashed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
- Ethnic
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- Nov 07, 2020
On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020