Nick Burd Quotes

The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

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• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • World
  • Father
  • Son

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Realize
  • Content

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • World
  • Voice
  • Moment

• I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fill

• A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • World
  • Work
  • Today

• There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

  

  Lord Byron
  • World
  • Joy

• There's no indication or hint about the material world in my painting. No, I don't paint about the world. Everybody else is painting about the world. That's enough.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • World
  • Painting

• People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • World
  • Stupid

• The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. I want to find a world in which these instances are united. Shall I succeed? I scarcely care. What is important is to try & learn to live, and in relation to everything – not isolated. This isolation is death to me.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Night
  • Needs
  • Audience

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Fly

• The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

  

  Nick Burd
  • World
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  • Wandering