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166 Own World quotes by 139 unique authors

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to… — Daphne du Maurier
I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon… — Charles de Lint
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness,… — Shaun Tan
It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's. — Jodi Picoult
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people… — Jasper Fforde
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could… — Jared Diamond
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. — Woody Allen
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,… — Paulo Coelho
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of… — C.S. Lewis
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my… — David Levithan
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that… — Cornelia Funke
The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's… — Octavia Butler
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center… — Nick Hornby
This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we… — Stanislaw Lem
You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I… — Nicole Krauss
A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing — Nicholas Sparks
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and… — Ian Mcewan
If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy… — Jimi Hendrix
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I… — Neil Gaiman
We remember what it was like to meet someone new. We remember what it was like to grant someone possibility. You look out from your… — David Levithan
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world. — Willard Wigan
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the… — Rick Rubin
I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go. — Francis Alys

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