Patrick Ness Quotes

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

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• That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.

  

  Gary Carter
  • World
  • Me
  • Winning

• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• 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

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • World
  • Present
  • Husband

• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • World
  • Day

• I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fun

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Work
  • Man

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • World

• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

  

  Al Stewart

• Our revenue commissions are very happy and very clear that they showed no sweetheart deals and no preference for any company and never do and never have and never will.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Happy

• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Boy
  • Feel