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World Quotes


"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."


"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world."


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


"Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia."


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


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


"A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world."


"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."


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


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


"They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world."


"Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."


"I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year."


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


"I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world."



"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."


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


"I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy."


"The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world."



"Those who are in vyavahar (worldly interactions), and who are indeed conducting themselves in the vyavahar; are known as worldly people [sansaari]. And 'Siddha' (absolutely enlightened Ones without a body) are not in the worldly conduct whatsoever. Therefore, they are known as the 'non-worldly' people [asansaari]! Then there are those who are in the worldly life and yet whose conduct is not in the worldly life at all; such 'Gnani Purush (the enlightened ones)' are called, 'non-worldly' (asansaari)."


"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."


"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."


"It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone."


"I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it."


"Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that."


"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."


"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."


"The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it."


"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."



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


"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."



"There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists."


"My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world."
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