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World Quotes


"The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree."


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


"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."


"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."


"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."


"There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is."


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


"I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world."


"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."


"San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate."


"Half the world does not know how the other half lives."


"Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things."


"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."


"The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted."


"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."


"When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low."


"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."



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


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


"There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited."


"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."


"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself."


"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."


"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."


"I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is."


"You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe."


"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"


"Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us."


"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."


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