This World Quotes

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

"You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment."

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves for money-- Come, journey the way with me.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.

Everything looks true written down. What you read in National Enquirer and News Of The World looks true written down.

what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.

Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.

He danced on the knife’s edge between awareness and sleep. When he dreamt like this, he was a king. The world was his to bend. His to burn.

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up.

I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.

There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted.

And then I did laugh, even though the future was a dangerous place, because I loved her, and she loved me, and the world was beautiful.

There was no other sound in the world like a car crash.