Max Azria Quotes

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

The world is such a small place.

I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

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

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.