In The World Quotes

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

If anyone other than you had me fly halfway around the world just to keep me waiting while you were obviously lingering in bed, I’d have my driver run them over. Twice.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

Passion is your positive attitude in a world of negativity.

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.

Everything’s a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.

I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

I feel a responsibility to get the truth out into the world.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.

We're in a world of triple-digit oil prices for the foreseeable future.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

When you begin to give value to the world, somehow the people you affect will find a way to tell you. Even if it takes a couple of years.

Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

Iran is the prime state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.