- Basic Understanding
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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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
- Fiat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020