World Quotes
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The first two-dimensional images were thus not two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things in the material world, as researchers have always assumed. Rather, they were ‘fixed’ mental images.
David Lewis-Williams
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In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.
John C. Danforth
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I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.
Anne Beatts
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...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
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A poem, a genuine one, does not need to fear the world; it stands up to it, even when a bell rings and an unexpected guest arrives to tell us, while the same coffee is still in our cups, of his fourteen years in captivity...
Max Frisch
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I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'
Amy Jackson
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I'm fond of my werecats, if only because I have four real-world felines staring at me as I type.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Thanks to my parents, who had me traveling around the world mouth-first, I knew from a young age I wanted a career in food.
Andrew Zimmern
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.
Alan Abelson
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Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.
Dante Alighieri
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I am the luckiest man in the world.
Chuck Pagano
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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
Emma Goldman
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President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.
Conan O'Brien
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Being editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and 'Observer' is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.
Katharine Viner
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I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.
Jane Badler
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There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.
David Foreman
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I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
Billie Jean King
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
William James
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Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Joe Frazier
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.
Evangeline Booth
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Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.
Joanna Russ
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This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.
Andrew McMahon