Quotes of: Imaginary-world Keyword

You looked like the sexiest woman in the world." "Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world." "And you're always right." "You are so brilliant to recognize that.

Drama Queen's Last Dance

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.

The Demon's Surrender

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more conv...

Disgrace

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck...

Einstein's Dreams

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.

East of Eden

We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought.

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

Energy is the currency of the universe. When you 'pay' attention to something, you buy that experience.

The Energy of Emotions: The 10 Emotional Environments and How They Shape the World Around Us

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World: Volume I

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

The Guns of August

As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak?

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

Handle with Care

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

From Here to Eternity