"The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
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"How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?"
"You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble."
"All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word."
"Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world."
"The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!"
"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting."
"I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'"
"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."
"I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit."
"The best social reform program in the world is a job."
"It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world."
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
"Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments."
"You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady."
"The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?"
"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."
"We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl."
"Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things."
"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."