Quotes on World

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

Author: Edie Adams

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

Author: Renata Adler

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Author: Vittorio Alfieri

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Author: Muhammad Ali

We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.

Author: Iyad Allawi

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Author: Dorothy Allison

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

Author: Herb Alpert

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.

Author: Laurie Anderson

The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Author: Laurie Anderson

And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?

Author: Marliece Andrada

I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.

Author: Giulio Andreotti

I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

Author: Stuart Appleby

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Author: Archimedes

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

Author: Roger Ascham

It's a different world.

Author: John Ashcroft

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Author: David Attenborough

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Author: W. Auden

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Author: Saint Augustine

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Author: Saint Augustine

This world's a bubble.

Author: Saint Augustine

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Author: Jane Austen

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

Author: David Axelrod

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

Author: Shaukat Aziz

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Author: Richard Bach

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Author: Richard Bach

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

Author: Jane Badler

For me, Schubert contains the world.

Author: Janet Baker

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Author: Abu Bakr

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Author: James Baldwin

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Author: James Baldwin

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Author: James Baldwin

There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.

Author: Hosea Ballou

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Author: Pedro Barca

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

Author: Carl Barks

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Author: Christiaan Barnard

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Author: James Barrie

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

Author: Martin Bashir

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of "The Lord of the Rings". From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

Author: Sean Bean

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Author: Franz Beckenbauer

Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

Author: Boris Becker

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Author: Henry Beecher

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

Author: Brian Behlendorf

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

Author: Camilla Belle

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

Author: Robert Bennett

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

Author: E. Bentley

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Author: Ingrid Bergman

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

Author: Daniel Bernstein

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Author: Yogi Berra

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Author: Mary Bethune

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.

Author: Theodore Bikel

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

Author: Julie Bishop

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

Author: Bill Bixby

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

Author: Honor Blackman

We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.

Author: Richard Bland

The world has gotten so interwoven.

Author: Hans Blix

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Author: Harold Bloom

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

I am not the world's most confident person.

Author: Heston Blumenthal

I'm interested in the real world.

Author: Edward Bond

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

Author: Edward Bond

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.

Author: Wes Borland

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Author: Louis Brandeis

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Author: Georg Brandes

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.

Author: Toni Braxton

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Author: Berkeley Breathed

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

Author: Eric Bristow

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

Author: Jim Broadbent

There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.

Author: Anne Bronte

That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond.

Author: Pierce Brosnan

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

Author: Louise Brown

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Author: Jerome Bruner

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Author: Martin Buber

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

Author: Zola Budd

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

Author: Leo Burnett

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Author: William Burroughs

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Author: Jeb Bush

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

Author: Joseph Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Author: Samuel Butler

The world is a penal institution.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Author: John Calvin

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

Author: David Cameron

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Author: Albert Camus

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Author: Cao

A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

Author: Joyce Carey

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Author: Mariah Carey

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Author: Dale Carnegie

Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.

Author: David Carradine

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Author: John Carre

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Author: Lewis Carroll

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Author: Bennett Cerf

We live in a very complex world.

Author: Vinton Cerf

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Author: Paul Cezanne

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

Author: Kyle Chandler

It is not a fragrant world.

Author: Raymond Chandler

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

Author: Carol Channing

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

Author: Hugo Chavez

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

Author: Cher

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Author: Kate Chopin

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Author: Emile Cioran

Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!

Author: Kelly Clarkson

World records are only borrowed.

Author: Sebastian Coe

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

Author: William Cohen

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.

Author: Jim Coleman

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Author: Robert Collier

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

Author: Phil Collins

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

Author: Mike Conaway

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Author: Joseph Conrad

We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice.

Author: Frederick Cook

I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone.

Author: Tre Cool

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Author: Mason Cooley

My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

Author: Billy Corgan

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Author: Doug Coupland

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Author: Doug Coupland

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Author: Robert Crippen

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Author: Quentin Crisp

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Author: Robert Crumb

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Author: e. cummings

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

Author: Jamie Curtis

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

Author: Tony Curtis

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

Author: Tony Curtis

Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

Author: Samuel Daniel

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

Author: Bobby Darin

My approach to my subjects was very simple. I never had them pose, we just talked about everything in the world.

Author: Jo Davidson

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

Author: John Deacon

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Author: James Dean

We are here to make another world.

Author: W. Deming

I am a citizen of the world.

Author: Demosthenes

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Author: Andrew Denton

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

Author: Laura Dern

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Author: Danny DeVito

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Author: Cameron Diaz

I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world.

Author: Janice Dickinson

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Author: Diogenes

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Author: Walt Disney

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

Author: Bill Dixon

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Author: Cory Doctorow

The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Author: Christopher Dodd