End Of The World Quotes - Page 9

• I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Art, Play, World

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Hands, Long

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

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• I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1864). “The Maine Woods”, p.11

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, World

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• I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Baseball, Home, Careers

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• I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

  Ava Gardner

  Australia, World, Film

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• When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

  Zac Efron

  World, Ends, Young

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• The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Long, Attention, Tipping

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• The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Church, World, Earth

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• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Artist, Ideas, America

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• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Creating, Hot, Stories

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• Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

  Bill Vaughan

  World, Too Much, Ends

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• Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

  Lana Del Rey

  Love Is, People, Dying

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Ideas, Language

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• When you’re in love you’ll do anything, I’d go to the end of the world.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Love You, World, Ends

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• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  Walter Kohn

  War, Views, Years

  Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media

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• People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

  Graham Hancock

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.

  Paula Yates

  Mother, Running, Purple

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• Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Mind, World, Body

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.65, Cooper Square Press

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• I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future.

  Colbie Caillat

  Heart, Broken, Looks

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• At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

  Dave Franco

  Fall, Risk, Different

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

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• What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

  Liane Moriarty

  What If, World, Ends

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