Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Draiman

Spread the sickness, infect the world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Beatrice Wood

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

Bear Grylls

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Barnett Newman

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

Barry Diller

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Baroness Orczy

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Audrey Meadows

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

August Strindberg

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

August Wilson

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.

Arthur Peacocke

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

Armstrong Williams

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

Arnold Bennett

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

Edwin Louis Cole

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

Edwin Land

The world belongs to the articulate.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edward Lear

It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.

Edmund Waller

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Benjamin Franklin

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously. In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

Benjamin Franklin

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

Benjamin Franklin

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?