World Quotes
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
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If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
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All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.
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We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces.
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
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One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
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This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?
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It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.
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There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
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The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.
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Jazz is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.
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When the world loses its fucking mind and turns on you like a stupid feral cat you thought was tame, it happens. Everyone does the long, woozy whistle, and keel over.
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Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.
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Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
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If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day have the ideal that I want my work to be not too expensive, so that if people buy it and break it, it's not going to be the end of the world. I'm not interested in having things in museums, although some of our work has ended up there, but that's not what I'm striving for.
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I think Americans really need to start thinking globally. As resources become more dear, we will be pulled closer to the rest of the world anyway.
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This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
