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World Quotes by Don DeLillo
- Hardship makes the world obscure.
- Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain…
- And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world…
- As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do…
- I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.
- Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
- Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and…
- America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is…
- To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise…
- Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a…
- He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
- He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that…
- Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
- I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these…
- For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we…
- When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision…
- When he died he would not end. The world would end.
- World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
- There is a world inside the world.
- The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
- Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a…
- When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
- That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
- There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually…
- Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle…
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