World Quotes
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
Charles Dickens
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I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
Mike Figgis
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If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.
James Stewart
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America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.
Dennis Miller
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Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.
Virginia Woolf
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Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
William Law
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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne Westwood
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I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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My world fell away from me. Agony stabbed my chest.
Craig Shaw Gardner
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Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for in a world in which Communism is hardly a monolithic force.
Pete Hamill
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Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.
Lydia Millet
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I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
Joan Jett
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We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy.
Raheem DeVaughn
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It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but they're saying very little, so then you have to communicate it through your behavior.
Viola Davis
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Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
Peter Tork The Monkees
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
George Eliot
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I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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The world is full of dumb paperwork.
Peter Alexis Shukoff
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna
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When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together) 'Who we got?' and off you go. But when you're playing badly, or your trust is dented, or your self-belief is gone, it's the worst (freaking) week in the world!
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo
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Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.
Erik Reece