Scott Westerfeld Quotes

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Support
  • Incredibly

• Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Teachers
  • Degree

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • World
  • Done
  • Political

• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Up
  • World
  • Taken

• Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • World
  • Film
  • Communist

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Dream
  • Words

• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Wall

• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • World
  • School
  • Guy

• The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

  

  Babyface
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• Islamization of Europe is an unavoidable consequence, indeed, an inevitability, once Europe ceased to reproduce itself. The descendants of the men who went out from Europe to conquer and Christianize the world have decided to leave the world. The culture of death triumphs, as the poor but fecund Muslims, expelled centuries ago, return to inherit the estate.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Men
  • Death

• Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures...

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • World
  • Book
  • Eyes

• During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Air

• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Experience
  • Door
  • Architecture

• Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

  

  Judy Blume
  • God

• We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • World
  • Famous