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

• In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • World
  • War
  • Political

• The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any 'ism.' When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

  

  Meher Baba
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Low budget movies make lots of money.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Budget

• Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Affliction
  • Calamity

• 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