#world

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #right #tiny #totally #typewriter

My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#most #mother #she #supportive #world

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#artist #artists #how #lit #name

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certainly #contents #does #fit #fits

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#heaven #history #jerusalem #more #the history of

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#art #athens #city #conquest #dwells

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#comes #definitive #delivered #even #grunge

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world! ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#based #choose #christianity #death #fundamentalist

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#democracy #into #politicians #statesmen #weary