World Quotes

• I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house."

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Country
  • War
  • Action

• An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.

  

  John McCain
  • American
  • Free
  • Winning

• He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • World
  • Heart
  • Woman

• Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Son

• I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • World
  • Real
  • Peace

• “I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”

  

  Adolph Rupp
  • World
  • Trip
  • Iota

• When you come through this world, and you become successful, you have to give back.

  

  Jessy White
  • World
  • Successful
  • Give Back

• You mean the world to me and I'll never stop loving you 'Cause what you have given me I can never repay And if we meet again somehow, I will love you then as now 'Cause you mean the world to me

  

  David LaMotte
  • Mean
  • Loving
  • Cause

• I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Dark
  • Film

• People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.

  

  Will Gluck
  • People
  • Real
  • Seems

• Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Different
  • Moments
  • Animal

• If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

  

  Joseph Heller
  • World
  • Rate

• There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • World

• I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • World
  • WIld

• I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • World
  • Sports
  • Childhood

• We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top-the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars-Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.

  

  Andrea Levy
  • World
  • Feet
  • Around

• I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Smart
  • Realizing
  • Rejection

• I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really. After going through the day with its stresses, when I shut that door at night, I don't have to deal with anything but dinner, 'E.R.' and my bathrobe.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Night
  • Door
  • Adventure

• I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

  

  Thierry Mugler
  • Trying
  • Made
  • Clothes

• When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Book
  • College
  • Understanding

• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

  

  Romano Prodi
  • Political
  • Taken
  • Identity

• It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • World

• Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Success
  • Alone
  • Singing

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