World Quotes
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I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
Linda Ellerbee
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It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
Mario Cuomo
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You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.
Mary Oliver
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I think the reason I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world is I beat everyone in my division.
Demetrious Johnson
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We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day.
Patrisse Cullors
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There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
Jim Fowler
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My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.
Katherine Dunn
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
Victor Pinchuk
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.
Marion Cotillard
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Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
Mark Bittman
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Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.
Brad Pitt
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
Ian Hart
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I've never met anybody in this world like me.
Vanilla Ice
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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
Zach Anner
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
Oscar Wilde
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The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.
Lewis H. Lapham
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)
e. e. cummings
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
Ja Rule
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The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda
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The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me.
Marvin Hagler
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
Rachael Ray