Sufjan Stevens Quotes

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

Sufjan Stevens

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• When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Game
  • Player

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • World
  • Now
  • Content

• Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Me
  • Kind

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • World
  • Kiss
  • Greatest

• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Brave

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • World
  • Respect
  • Person

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • World
  • Live
  • Science

• The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Best
  • Medicine

• The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Majority

• I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Love
  • Job

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • American
  • Car

• The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • World
  • Truth
  • Light

• The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

  

  James Mill
  • People
  • Together
  • Free

• Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Improvement
  • Trade
  • Poetic

• You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Water

• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Kind
  • Morality