Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herb Alpert

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

Herb Caen

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

Henry David Thoreau

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Henry David Thoreau

Oh, one world at a time!

Henry David Thoreau

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Henry David Thoreau

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Jeremy Grantham

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

Jennifer Egan

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

Jeff Vandermeer

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

Jeff Greenwald

Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.

Jean Sibelius

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

Jean Sibelius

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Jean Smart

You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

Jean Rhys

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Jerry Saltz

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Jerry Seinfeld

In my world, the wronger something feels, the righter it is,

Jeffrey Goldberg

Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Jesse Metcalfe

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

Jesse Jackson

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

Jennifer O'Neill

If we lived in a world with no fear, then you would never discover the courage you have within.

Jennifer Lawrence

I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

Jeffrey Toobin

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

Jim Breyer

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

James Buchan

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

James C. Collins

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

James Cameron

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.

James A. Michener

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.