Outside World Quotes - Page 2

• True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

  Jimmy Breslin

  New York, Interesting, World

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• We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Needs, World

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• Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, World, Bliss

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.187, A&C Black

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• I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Telephones

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• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Congratulations, Air, Victory

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

  Hugh Prather

  World, Description, Inadequacy

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspiring, Stars, Men

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

  Mark Haddon

  Father, Two, White

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• I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a crack... I could see outside. I watched, only for a few seconds." He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months. There was no anger or reproach. It was Papa who spoke. How did it look?" Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned by eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Eye, Two

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• And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

  James Herriot

  Lonely, Father, Simple

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

  Patrick Süskind

  Hate, Eye, Self

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• I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Rocks, World

  "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

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• I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

  Chris Offutt

  Home, Long, World

  Chris Offutt (2003). “The Same River Twice: A Memoir”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

  Darren Hayes

  School, Kids, Years

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• If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside.

  Mary J. Blige

  Jobs, Work, Reflection

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• I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fall, Flames, Shooting Up

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Children, Guitar

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, www.cbc.ca. January 4, 2011.

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• To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

  Bel Kaufman

  Summer, Mother, Morning

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Being Yourself, Believe, Negativity

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Love Is, Objectivity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Independent, Judging, Would Be

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• Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient—people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled. Meanwhile the ghetto in the outside world is a prison as well, and a much more difficult one to escape from than this correctional compound. In fact, there is basically a revolving door between our urban and rural ghettos and the formal ghetto of our prison system.

  Piper Kerman

  Ghetto, Government, Doors

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• In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.

  Elaine Equi

  Real, Past, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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