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World Quotes



"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."


"I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you."


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


"Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come."


"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."


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


"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."



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


"A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed."


"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."


"Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."


"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease."


"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."


"And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price."


"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."


"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."


"It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world."


"Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world."


"I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be."


"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."


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


"But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing."


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


"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."


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


"It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap."


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