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World Quotes


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


"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."


"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."


"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."


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


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


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


"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."


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


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


"If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world."


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


"The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem."


"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."


"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."


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


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


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


"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"



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


"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world."


"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."


"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."


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


"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."


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


"I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front."


"I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook."


"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."


"The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things."


"Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one."


"The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it."


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