World Quotes
-
Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.
Jai Courtney
-
Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
-
When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.
Katherine Ryan
-
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
John Eaton
-
Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
Princess Eugenie of York
-
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
David Attenborough
-
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
Bill de Blasio
-
My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever about how Uncle Sam had mistreated him and other black soldiers.
John Edgar Wideman
-
The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
Francis Bacon
-
The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'
Zig Ziglar
-
Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.
Oscar Niemeyer
-
Every time I win, I prove something: I'm the best guy in the world at what I do.
Chuck Liddell
-
If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
-
Do you not think that if all of us come to believe in and abide by these principles, that is, monotheism, worship of God, justice, respect for the dignity of man, belief in the Last Day, we can overcome the present problems of the world
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-
I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, 'Hey. Consider me!'
Lake Bell
-
I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
Nas
-
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.
Emil Cioran
-
Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.
Dale Carnegie
-
I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.
David Sylvian
-
When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by 'Star Wars' fans around the world.
Kathleen Kennedy
-
I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.
Oliver Sim The xx
-
What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
Jane Fonda
-
The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
-
To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
Brian Tracy