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World Quotes by Jay McInerney
- A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting…
- I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.
- Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.
- There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
- You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even…
- Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
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