My World Quotes

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

I've had a very positive experience in LA in the comedy world and found everyone to be very nice and welcoming. It's been really fun.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

It's so great to work with people you know and love and trust, but also open up the world.

Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.

Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give interviews! I make movies! I'm amazed at myself.

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.

Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

The problem with Superwoman is that she has to do it all, inside the home and outside the home. If there is a man there doing half of it, that's a different world.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

I don't hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced [family home evening], you'd see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the world.

Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead.

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.