#worlds

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #worlds




For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilization progressed.


H.G. Wells


#the-war-of-the-worlds #business

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.


Aimee Mann


#addiction #because #even #example #funny

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.


Nelson Goodman


#apart #between #cannot #defined #differ

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.


Michelle Williams


#being #best #brooklyn #dinner #dinner table

Everyone wants to be a God. We manufacture our own worlds, duping ourselves with things to escape the reality we call our lives. Drugs, alcohol, sex, work, school. Bigger houses, newer cars and designer clothes are the universes we invent to exert our god-like rule. We can't control the weather, but it's always a perfect seventy-two degrees in our central-air controlled worlds.


Brian Krans


#inspirational #worlds #design

One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.


Alain de Botton


#movement #travel #worlds #home

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


Kim Edwards


#other-worlds #unknown #imagination

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.


Joan Aiken


#imagination

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.


Nick Park


#before #believable #build #could #even

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.


Mark Knopfler


#longing-for-peace #war #worlds #diversity