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World Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
- All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The…
- I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the…
- The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more…
- I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of…
- I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself…
- I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
- I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.
- Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen…
- The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
- There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make…
- I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People…
- You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It…
- I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And…
- Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of…
- I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at…
- …It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued.…
- Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to…
- We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them…
- I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about…
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