Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Dillard

The world knew you before you knew the world.

Daniel Keyes

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Daniel J. Boorstin

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Daniel J. Boorstin

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

D. A. Carson

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

D. H. Lawrence

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

Conor Oberst

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Conor Oberst

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Daniel Defoe

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

Dan Brown

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

David Friedrich Strauss

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

David Clennon

I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.

David Archuleta

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

David Attenborough

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

David Attenborough

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

David Attenborough

If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.

David Attenborough

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

Donella Meadows

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

Dylan Thomas

All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.

Doug Stanhope

Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.

Doug Stanhope

When you consider the overpopulation in this world ... homosexuality is completely underrated in this society.

Douglas Adams

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

Douglas Adams

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

Doris Lessing

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Doris Lessing

Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.

Don Tapscott

Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

Dale Carnegie

You can't get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something.

Dale Carnegie

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Iker has never stopped being one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For me, Iker is a top goalkeeper and has never not been.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Mesut Ozil made me the worlds best striker

Craig McDean

I don't really like the world 'muse.'