My World Quotes

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.

The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

No actor in the world started off at the top.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).

Float with me in the world of ether.

" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

You are here to deliver a divine gift to the world.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

I like birthdays. Every time someone is born, that's just like bringing more cake into the world.

If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.

If everybody in the world saw a therapist, we would have a better world.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.