Classic Quote by Clive James

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts…

— Terry Pratchett

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as…

— Alessandro Baricco

“for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most…

— Stefan Grabinski

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying…

— Margaret Mahy

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage…

— Cormac McCarthy

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were…

— Milan Kundera

Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

— R. Buckminster Fuller

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson