Western World

Famous quotes containing the words western world, western and/or world:

    “The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent—a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion—macho, sotto voce.”
    —Phil Patton (b. 1953)

    “... the world always a step
    beyond the world, that can’t
    be looked for, only
    as the eye wanders,
    found.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)