World Quotes
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My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
Elizabeth McCracken
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The world is sacred because it gives an inkling of a meaning that escapes us
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.
Jason Statham
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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
Jim Henson
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
R. A. Salvatore
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People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.
Jon McGregor
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The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.
Derek Walcott
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I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.
Buzz Aldrin
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The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
Napoleon Hill
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
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'He will reprove the world of sin' -not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder- 'of sin because they believe not on me.'
Dwight L. Moody
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Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!
Matt Bevin
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Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
David McCandless
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
Napoleon Hill
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
Beck
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Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
Kate DiCamillo
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I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.
John Prine
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I'm particularly proud of my work with the Starkey Hearing Foundation for whom I raised a million dollars in one day on 'Celebrity Apprentice.' They do great work around the world helping deaf children in developing countries get proper attention and free hearing aids.
Marlee Matlin
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Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.
Boris Spassky
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There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
Dana Spiotta
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Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
George M. Whitesides
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The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.
Stevie Wonder
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What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world.
Zach Sobiech