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Worldly Quotes (page 294)

This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is."What?"The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are. Neil Gaiman
Annie Dillard quote: "Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? ..."
Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on. Annie Dillard
Again, Homer felt the nudge in his ribs, and Mr. Rose said, mildly, ‘You all so uneducated – Homer’s havin’ a little fun with you.’ When the bottle of rum passed from man to man, Mr. Rose just passed it along. ‘Don’t the name Homer mean nothin’ to you?’ Mr. Rose asked the men. ‘I think I heard of it,’ the cook Black Pan said. ‘Homer was the world’s first storyteller!’ Mr. Rose announced. The nudge at Homer’s ribs was back, and Mr. Rose said, ‘Our Homer knows a good story, too. John Irving
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling..."
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. Nicholas Sparks
If I make the lashes dark. And the eyes more bright. And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right. From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had. Before the world was made. William Butler Yeats
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man..."
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Robert Bolt quote: "For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his..."
For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales! Robert Bolt
there is a loneliness in this world so greatthat you can see it in the slow movement ofthe hands of a clock. people so tiredmutilatedeither by love or no love. people just are not good to each otherone on one. the rich are not good to the richthe poor are not good to the poor. we are afraid. our educational system tells usthat we can all bebig-ass winners. it hasn't told usabout the guttersor the suicides. or the terror of one personaching in one placealoneuntouchedunspoken towatering a plant. Charles Bukowski
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge Cormac McCarthy
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being. John Barth
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world? Louise Erdrich
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the sum of her experiences, though it runs like veins of brilliant metal through all three. It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world because it is made of the same substance Michael Cunningham
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown? Virginia Woolf
David Lynch quote: "Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to..."
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me! David Lynch
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Haruki Murakami

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