#merely

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. ↗

— Paul Virilio

#does #globalization #light #merely #speed

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#covers #days #did #early #felt

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#comes #merely #nothing #thinking

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. ↗

— Rebecca West

#life #lived #memory #mere #merely

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#camden #dull #exciting #jersey #merely

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#already #beat #boast #cannot #come

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ↗

— Andre Gide

#get #go #him #his #idea

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being. ↗

— John Grierson

#between #conflicts #disguised #distinction #distort

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#dinner #english #face #merely #never