My World Quotes
The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.
I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"
We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.
In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!
Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.
I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.