Best World Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.”

World My Favorite Parks Fascinated Disneyland

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”

Thinking World Film Actors Directors Theater

“I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.”

Ifs World Believe Children Jobs Parent Pawns

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.”

“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.”

World Two Ideas Together Creativity Rocks Around The World Flames Sparks Satisfying New Ideas

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.”

World Ideas Film Wonder Edges Intense Hopefully Cinema Shock Love Films

Author:Julia Leigh

“It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.”

Ifs World Feels Wells Ends Sat End Of The World

Author:Marie Lu

“As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.”

World Trying Form Certain Values Century Style Narrative Conform 19th Century Experiencing The World

Author:Mark Leyner

“As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.”

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Book:The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

Source: The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

People World Want Needs Art States House Comfort Draws Art Is Responsible Works Of Art Requirements

Author:Adolf Loos

“I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.”

People World Self Respect Respecting Others Respect Yourself

Author:Little Milton

“I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.”

People Thinking World Important Ideas Games Language My Own Flow Copies Imagery Outside World

Author:Margaret Mahy

“You know, I'm not real tall. I'm 6'0, 6'½, but I think people think I'm shorter than I am because I'm not the most muscular cat in the world.”

People Thinking Knows World Real Cat Tall

Author:Mark McGrath

“I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.”

World Trying Ideas States Fighting Lost No Idea Vietnam Kent

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.”

World Want Writing Years Book Different Written Subtle Admiring

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.”

World I Can Let Me Storm Strikes Spots Vulnerable

Book:Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler

Source: Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler

“One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.”

World Interest Pay Aim

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.”

World Littles White Filled Mint Marshes

Book:I Await the Devil's Coming

Source: I Await the Devil's Coming

“What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.”

World Want Behinds Audience Exciting Divides Curtains Other Worlds

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Hollywood is kind of a bad world.”

World Kind Hollywood

Author:Mia Maestro

“American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.”

World Political Policy Around The World Stability Foreign Policy Shortcomings American Foreign Policy

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.”

World America Strong One Thing Weak

Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.”

World Important Use Oil Regions

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.”

World Country Democratic Division

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.”

World Doe States Reason Government United United States

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”

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Book:The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the

Source: The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the

“American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.”

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Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.”

People World Self Becoming Academic

Author:Michael McKean

“I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.”

World I Can Different Focus Different Place

Author:Jodie Foster

“The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.”

World Mind Produce Western Horrible Dirty Devices Afghanistan Outside World Western World Landmines Dirty Business

Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.”

People World Fun Rooms Fun Things

Author:Paula Malcomson

“There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.”

World Country Today Dangerous Pakistan World Today

Author:Peter MacKay

“The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.”

World Needs Lasts Faces Turns

Author:Peter Mandelson

“Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.”

World Way Example Building India Prosperity Zone Regions Stability Transformed Kashmir New Future Jammu Jammu And Kashmir

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.”

People World Littles Bigs My Own Foundation Environmental Supporter

Author:Rob Machado

“As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.”

People World Way Should Matter Sports Mines Lucky Treats No Matter What International Nationality Sportsman

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I mean I don't want to feel inferior to any other golfer in the world. You know if you do that, then you know you're giving them an advantage, you know, right off the - you know, right from the start.”

Ifs Knows World Want Giving Feels Mean Advantage Inferiors Golfers

Author:Rory McIlroy

“If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.”

Ifs World Ends Asks Winning Individual Sports Achieve Majors Cups Ask Me Remembered The End Of The Day Championship

Author:Rory McIlroy

“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”

World Real Beautiful Fun Wish Fantasy Photograph Celebration Celebration Of Life Fun Life

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want.”

People Ifs World Want Beautiful Girl Nice Likes Who I Am If I Could Idols Hometown Beautiful Girl American Idol Scotty

Author:Scotty McCreery

“Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.”

World Leader Technology Research Investment Science And Technology Staggering Science Research

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.”

Thinking World Media Changed England

Author:Sienna Miller

“I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.”

Thinking World Two Language Technology Fashion Designer Two Worlds

Author:Stella McCartney

“That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.”

World Years Three This World Mess Three Years Messed Up Three Year Olds

Author:Story Musgrave

“I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”

People Thinking World Children Ability Psychology Examining Prodigious Life Living

Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.”

World Ideas Today Vision Impossible Architecture Heal Absurd Architect Old Fashioned Heal The World

Author:Thom Mayne

“It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.”

World Art Reason Political Social Connections Notion Autonomy

Author:Thom Mayne

“If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.”

Ifs World Stills Law

Author:Tom McClintock

“In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.”

World Home Ideals Weekend Switzerland Ideal World

Author:Vanessa Mae

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