My World Quotes

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

The world was not made for any one species.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It gives you a new perspective on the world.

Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.

I was born to murder the world.

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

What he [Barack Obama] does to change the world - that's what's important.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.