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World Quotes by Cornelia Funke
- Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a…
- Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
- This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between…
- The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find…
- Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too…
- This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger…
- Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open…
- What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says…
- They're all cruel,' he said. 'The world I come from, the world you come from, and this one, too. Maybe the people don't see the…
- Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the…
- I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder…
- I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and…
- Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff…
- So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,…
- The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of…
- What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of…
- It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very…
- It's a cruel world, don't you think?
- I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.
- Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You…
- Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds…
- 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…
- Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume…
- We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling out of a…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach