Top Quotes About World

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Arundhati Roy

Christian Hindu World
Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

Pete Waterman

Music Question Technology World
The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that’s 14 year old boys.

Rob Walton

Books Boys Film Old Sports World
We (actors) don’t really change the world. We reflect it… but Washington really changes the world.

Martin Sheen

Change Washington World
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Men Old World
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

Clare Short

Causes Now People Right Words World
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

May People World
I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said “There’s no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there’s no military solution.”

Bradley Whitford

Human rights Israel Military Rights Solution Terrorism World
We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Mark Twain

Americans World
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

Jon Stewart

President Rest Spain World Yesterday
Do theater. Because you’ll develop a craft that you’ll always have. It’ll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won’t go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Mark Ruffalo

Act Chance Theater Will World
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

Ted Turner

Man World
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Antoine Rivarol

People Society Talent Wit Witty World
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Anne Rice

Answers Knowledge World
I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Alexander Walker

May Sex Violence World
If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Claude Pepper

Country Politicians states Thinking United World
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!

Sun Ra

Danger World
I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it’s the way to see the world and get paid for it.

David Walker

World
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

Vivienne Westwood

Gold World
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

Gordon Parks

Washington World
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

Artist Dream World
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

Name Nations Pen Will World
And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

Lawrence Taylor

World
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Meg White

World
Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Ronald Steel

Americans Television World
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

Rowan D. Williams

Church Hunger People World
I don’t say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

Mary Wortley

Man Merit World
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Harold Rosenberg

American Europe History Time World
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend Wilderness World
For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Robert Welch

American People Today World
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

John Raleigh Mott

Extreme May Nationalism Old World
I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world… perhaps you’ve seen it.

Steven Wright

World
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Absurdity Thought World
In today’s world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate – and even thrive – in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Olympia Snowe

Business Today World
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren’t particularly youth culture.

Robert Wyatt

Culture World Youth
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.

Joe Lieberman

Age Freedom History Time Will World
I’ve learned one thing about life. We’re a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

Ardel Wray

Dancing Life World
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey

World
Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Charles Francis Richter

Justice Name World
Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don’t want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Silvan Shalom

Community Countries Party Road Want World
Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Roger Waters

Blind Body Death Indifference Night Pain Shadows Will World
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

Goodness Kindness Mercy Old Today Values Words World
The world’s made up of individuals who don’t want to be heroes.

Brian Moore

Heroes Want World
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Golda Meir

Government Ideals World
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Martin Scorsese

Cinema Now Talk World
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

Lilies Peacocks World
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

Charles W. Pickering

America Exploitation Nation People Values Vulgarity Want World
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness Healing Practice World
Initially I probably didn’t even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it’s a total imaginary world.

Hugo Weaving

Acting Clothes Want World
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gore Vidal

Artists Boys Emotion Kings Life Love World
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