In The World Quotes

I like bowling. It's just one of those things where I can do so many jokes about it because I do know bowling. Somebody once said, "The whitest things in the world are Jim Gaffigan and bowling."

I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

President Obama broke a world record after he reached a million followers on Twitter in just five hours. The only guys not following Obama? His Secret Service agents. They lost track months ago.

Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats.

Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.