World Quotes
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That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?
Rabindranath Tagore
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In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.
Craig Kilborn
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'You can help me to keep my head cool,' was the answer. 'You stand for the world of common sense which will always win in the long run. When I'm inclined to run amok you'll remind me of England. You'll lower the temperature.'
John Buchan
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American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.
Phyllis Schlafly
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The world loves to be deceived.
Sebastian Franck
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I feel real good because it's about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don't fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.
DJ Khaled
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Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
Elisabeth Moss
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
Max Lerner
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I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize
Mike Honda
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All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
Christopher Koch
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Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.
Lynsey Addario
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My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients.
Atul Gawande
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One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
Janez Drnovsek
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I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
Ariel Dorfman
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My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.
Edwin Jackson
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I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world.
Uncle Kracker
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The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Kami Garcia
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Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire
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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
George Packer
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
Mark Zandi
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I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.
Bill Frisell