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World Quotes


"To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world."


"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."


"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."


"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."


"My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world."


"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."


"Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is."


"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."


"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."


"I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."


"I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks."


"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."


"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."


"We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping."


"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."


"There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime."


"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."


"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."


"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."


"I won't stop caring about the world, even if it looks stupid."


"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."


"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."


"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."


"Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too."



"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."


"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."


"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."


"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world."
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