L. Frank Baum Quotes

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

Nothing really shocks me anymore.

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.

A completely industrialized society is of no consequence to me.

As the world of chips and glass fibers and wireless waves goes, so goes the rest of the world

Modern civilization depends on science …

You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.

In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.

Numb is the new deep.

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Everything means nothing to me

America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.