World Quotes
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At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.
Katharine Graham
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The world is a dark place, and I find it endlessly funny.
John Banville
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Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Popper
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
Ted Turner
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
Karen Duffy
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I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.
Paolo Nutini
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
Paul Wolfowitz
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The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
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The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,’ Kim said. ‘Though it’s possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.
Kamila Shamsie
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
Nana Mouskouri
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
R. A. Salvatore
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Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
David Mamet
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When I was a kid in the '50s, during the Eisenhower years, everything seemed to be working fine. I don't recall as a teenager ever worrying about the state of the future world.
Lois Lowry
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The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.
Drew Bledsoe
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We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?
Pat Buchanan
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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
Bill Hader
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We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
David Axelrod
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It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
Chris Kattan
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The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
Barbara G. Walker
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I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
Bryan Singer
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The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Aristotle