Caroline Gordon Quotes

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

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• The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• 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

• I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Great
  • Loved
  • Him

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Why
  • Growth

• On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Book
  • Learn
  • Teach

• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Book
  • American
  • Community

• Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Everything

• The world wants to like America.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • America
  • Like

• When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.

  

  Valerie June
  • Loved
  • Whitney Houston

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Think
  • Challenge

• When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • World
  • Universe
  • Band

• Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Year
  • Immigration

• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• 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 I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Magic

• As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Good
  • Important
  • Long

• When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, 'She's a secret conservative.'

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • She
  • College
  • Daughter

• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Opportunity
  • Always
  • Someone

• A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  

  Caroline Gordon
  • World
  • Book
  • Magic