My World Quotes

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

Here's what the rest of the world does that we don't do. They take the tax off of their exports and place a tax on their imports. We do the opposite. We tax our exports and don't tax our imports.

Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

Personal wealth is the by-product of making the world a better place.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.