quotes about Small World

last updated: November 28, 2023

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it
-- Barbara Kruger

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It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.
-- David Mitchell

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No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.
-- J. Maarten Troost

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.”
“What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.”
“It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.”
“Effort supposes resistance.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.369, Indiana University Press
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015
“I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The actors feel very free. The actor, he doesn't need to think about where the camera is, he just has to focus on what he's doing and forget the camera. The camera is never in the perfect position, and I think this is what keeps this feeling of reality. The frame is not perfect.”
“There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.”
“What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.73, Open Road Media
“Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him,”