Whole World Quotes - Page 40

• I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players

  John Salathe

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

  Richard Kadrey

  Thinking, Fire, House

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• The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for.

  Randy Savage

  Waiting, Jupiter, World

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• Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Brother, Character, Interesting

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.

  W. C. Fields

  Dream, Conceited, Men

  W. C. Fields (1968). “Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life”

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• I can't imagine any greater fear
  Than waking up without you here
  And though the sun would still shine on
  My whole world would all be gone

  Sara Evans

  Mean, Shine On, Shining

  Song: No Place That Far

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• As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

  Samuel Pepys

  Happiness, Smile, Men

  Samuel Pepys (1997). “The Concise Pepys”, p.173, Wordsworth Editions

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• In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

  Herman Melville

  God, Fashion, Heart

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.374

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• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, God, Heart

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

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• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Flower, World

  Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet (1994). “Monet”, Taschen

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• The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

  Charles Dickens (1846). “¬The Chimes”

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• Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.

  John Spence

  Thinking, World, Persons

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• Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.

  Ben Okri

  Reading, Creativity, Character

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.24, Head of Zeus

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• In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

  Ben Okri

  Rivers, World, Hungry

  "The Famished Road". Book by Ben Okri, March 14, 1991.

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• I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Artist, Thinking, San Francisco

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• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Liberty, World

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.212

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• I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.

  Lionel Richie

  I Love You, Jobs, Passion

  "Hello? Is This The Country Album You're Looking For?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. April 2, 2012.

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• This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent it’s an idealized order I’m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Order, Essence

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• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Reality, People, World

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• Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Unity, Pieces

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.186, North Atlantic Books

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• It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

  Boris Pasternak

  Snow, World, Tables

  Boris Pasternak, “Winter Night”

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• I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Cancer, Men

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• I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Long, Silence

  Tennessee Williams (1959). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

  Thomas M. Disch

  Nature, Mud Puddles, World

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?

  Isaac Babel

  Dream, Heart, Play

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