My World Quotes

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

Music is dangerous in so many ways. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

There is a world inside the world.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

It's nice to be in a world where you're not going to exhaust storylines with potential villains.

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

Be thankful not only that you are an individual but also that others are different. The world needs all kinds, but it also needs to respect and use that individuality.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

America is not what's wrong with the world.

There's no debate in the world as to whether people have weapons of mass destruction... We all know that. A trained ape knows that.

The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

In America, we have the greatest businesspeople in the world. We have to use them to negotiate our trade deals.

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

We're right now the highest-taxed nation in the world.

I think I've gotten and developed tremendous relationships throughout the world with the leaders.

The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.

We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world.

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.

Our message to the world will be this. You cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country. Can't do it.

Americans cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

America needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible mess!

I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.

America has lost 70,000 factories since China entered the World Trade Organization, WTO, another Bill and Hillary Clinton backed disaster.

I have to tell you, our infrastructure, folks, is a mess. America is like a third-world country.

I will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

A free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world.

We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.