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World Quotes


"Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet."


"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."


"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."


"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."


"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn."


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


"We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors."


"I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it."


"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free."


"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."


"There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world."


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


"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."


"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."


"The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps."


"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."


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


"As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much."


"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."



"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."


"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords."


"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."


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


"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."


"There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better."


"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."


"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."


"Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next."


"That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens."


"We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world."


"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."


"It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising."


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


"In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world."


"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."


"I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images."


"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today."


"You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't."


"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."


"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."
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