Different Worlds Quotes - Page 2

• That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Here And There, Different

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• If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Different, Done, World

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Eye, Different

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.47, Penguin

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• The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine world, but one that allows myth to live. The myth is everything.

  Sergio Leone

  Real, Important, Different

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• If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Growing Up, Heart

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• When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Creating, Different

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• I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Two, People, Different

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• When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Different, World, 1960s

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

  Mark Knopfler

  Diversity, Different, World

  Song: Brothers in Arms

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• With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

  Joan Osborne

  Song, Brother, Moving

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  If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Children, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.209, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If I would have been in a different world Like I frequently am when I see you Oh I might have missed All the ways you try to give If only you knew what you do to me Sometimes I think about eternity If it would have been another time I wonder what you would of had in mind

  Ric Ocasek

  Time, Thinking, Giving

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• Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

  Denise Van Outen

  Different, World, Essex

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• Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.

  Kristin Luker

  Children, Real, Winning

  Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.215, Univ of California Press

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• We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

  Jose Saramago

  Laughing, Different, Movement

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• It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

  Susan Sarandon

  Growing Up, People, Important

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Healing, Our World

  "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

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• He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

  Philip Pullman

  Hard Work, Thinking, Heaven

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Different, World

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• Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Football, Fashion, Different

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• The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

  Jessamyn West

  Two, Sick, Different

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Girl, New York, Wall

  "New Again: Sigourney Weaver". Interview with Christopher Durang, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2012.

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• The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Artist, Quality, Different

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• What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

  Gene Tierney

  Mother, Brother, Europe

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Two, Ego

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