World Quotes · Page 205

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

— Cameron Russell

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.

— Louis MacNeice

“I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back.”

— Rainbow Rowell

I'm waiting for the world to turn upside down so that I may swim in a sea of stars.

— Anonymous

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!

— Franz Schubert

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

— Diana Vreeland

Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

— John Leguizamo

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on…

— Richard Hammond

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by…

— Pope Francis

Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.

— Julian Assange

I love doing 'X Factor,' I absolutely love it. It has its highs and lows. Sometimes I love it more than other…

— Louis Walsh

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the…

— Bertrand Russell

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed,…

— Felix Adler

“I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live…

— Garson Kanin

I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.

— Ben Gibbard

When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty. That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up.…

— Iliza Shlesinger

Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to…

— William Wilberforce

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress…

— Ahdaf Soueif

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that…

— Nico Santos

As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in…

— Kevin Keck

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is…

— Paul Feyerabend

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination.…

— Hugo Chavez

If you're not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn't go.

— Dale Steyn

“To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.”

— Makoto Shinkai

I learned I could be miserable anywhere in the world. I learned I really was an American.

— Lynne Tillman

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

All my life I am in the gym, stay healthy, and I know how to party and make the world news.

— The Iron Sheik

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

— Neale Donald Walsch

The world will be balanced when we are balanced.

— Tarthang Tulku

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

— Louise Erdrich

“So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

— Bobby Fischer

The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness.

— Anonymous

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.

— Saint Augustine

Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world.

— Pope Francis

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

— Errol Morris