Quotation Explorer - 'Worlds'

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) - J. Robert Oppenheimer
But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours. - Simon Sebag Montefiore
I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. - George R.R. Martin
We loved each other. We fought for each other. When worlds collapsed we were buried in the rubble together and when we were dug out of the rubble and rescued we all celebrated together. - Miriam Toews
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. - Ashly Lorenzana
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it. - Susanna Kaysen
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge. - Mikhail Bakunin
In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist man’s next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, his own god of destiny, and thus the student of his own evolving and ever uncertain truth. - Duane Hewitt
I pity him who refuses to leave the minatory of his refutable Judgments and still insisting on producing his light to lit our worlds. - Annie Ali
For me, writing isn't about money and fame. It's about passion, an art form that I want to share with the world, expand the horizons to new worlds, new experiences, and new adventures. - Jason W. Blair
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. - Amy Tan
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. - Earl Nightingale
I walk in and out of several worlds every day. - Joy Harjo
Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words,the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds. - Toba Beta
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment. - Ricky Maye
Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me to undiscovered worlds of azure and metamorphosis. The air shimmered with every breath, the water tightened with every sound. - Hubert Martin
One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created. - C.S. Woolley
Every book is a safe heaven, many people don't see it but I do.I see my chance to escape and be safe, I see the choice to stop or jump over the yelling, I see the key to help me get a better person.I see not different worlds, no, I see my universe. - I wrote it
The Worlds manmade Mega structures reminders us how resourceful we are if we want to get something done we usually can get it done , how ever challenging it might be - Danny Maximus
It always amazes me how people in Europe and the United States can be so indifferent to the speeches of their chancellor or president, for these worlds from the top can be a wind sock for what might happen next. - Paul Rusesabagina
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them. - Noel Fielding
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep! - Jalaluddin Rumi
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. - William James
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. - The Work of the Chariot
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language. - Jamie L. Harding
Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. - T.J. Mihaila
So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the Wisconsin woods, from a small town in Sweden to the red earth of Prince Edward Island. Nothing and no one interested me as much as my books. - Luisa Weiss
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Take over the school, take over the town, take over the worlds. It will be a world of compassion, of neighbor loving neighbor, of student loving student or at least treating one another with respect. No judgments. No name-calling. No more, no more, no more. - Jeniffer Niven
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. - Nikos Kazantzakis
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Flying high in the dark sky, crazy and free, I was happy visiting the worlds and giving death or madness to the people. Either was liberation. - Lara Biyuts. Vampire Armastus
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. - Friedrich Nietzsche
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book. - Mark Siegel
Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later. - Enza Vita
There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. - David Brooks
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious. - Rita Rudner
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. - The Bhagavad Gita
Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read. - Lani Brown
It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds - H.Q. Frost
In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds. - Carl Sagan
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones. - Jane Espenson
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.
Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to. - Jason Ellis
There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that. - R.L. Stine
We make versions, and true versions make worlds. - Nelson Goodman
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close. - Jeanette Winterson
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead. - Genesis Quihuis
You are being fashioned into one of two images, either God's or the worlds. Make a choice! - Jim George
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. - Humphry Davy
Intoxicated, I fell prey to the eyes comprising the cluster of different worlds. - Siddharth Bhatnagar
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! - Neil Gaiman
True beauty happens when two worlds collide and become one. - Imania Margria
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. - John Steinbeck
We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds; they are intertwined and holistic. - Tom Hayes
I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free! - Anonymous
Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real. - Marty Rubin
Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure. - H.B. Bolton
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. - Sylvia Plath
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved. - Kat O'Keeffe
No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me. - John Steinbeck
It's the witching hour once more-When the Muse comes out to play.He calls me through that magic door-Where galaxies of worlds await! - Belle Whittington
Play and productivity are no longer two separate worlds that rarely meet. They can come together like happy fistfuls of Play-Doh, beautifully blending to reveal the brand-new colors of a meaningful life. You get to play AND do. Play matters. Your life matters. It's time to manifest. - Marney K. Makridakis
Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we got to bring our own tin cans.
My worlds on a Girl Mohi Uddin A girl,May be your good friend...Can be a enemy...Also be a fool...And can also be a lovely sweetheart...Even be a cute sister...But all of those depends on your behavior with her...So always try to be a good behavior with a Girl. - Answers Mode
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds. - T.L. Rese
I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world. - Steven Wright
Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born. - Cassandra Wilson Run the Voodoo Down
Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore. - John Mark Green
Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast. - Linda Nelson
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. - Johnny Depp
As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds. - Rabbi Nachman de Bratslav
I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing. - Tracy Millosovich
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored. - J.F Hermann
I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul. - G.I. Gurdjieff
Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable. - Lana Wachowski
Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds. - Emily Hodson
Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide. - Jodie Picoult
Every man has three worlds. What he perceives, what he shows to the world and his reality. The third one is the mystery to be lived. - Harshit Walia
Putting a piece of you in your protagonist adds depth and merges the worlds of fiction and reality. - Adam Steven Page
Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. - Jason Ellis
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Writers, when they’re good, open windows to worlds held precious and priceless by the soul. It is a sad day when they leave the earth, like having the windows shut for good. Where will the world be without good writers? - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes. - Joan Lingard
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