Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Stone

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

Oliver Sacks

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Ntozake Shange

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Novalis

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

Norton Juster

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Norman Vincent Peale

I change my thoughts, I change my world.

Emilio Estevez

In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.

Emile Zola

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Emile M. Cioran

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Emile M. Cioran

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Emile M. Cioran

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.

Emile M. Cioran

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

Emile M. Cioran

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Ellen G. White

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

Eric Ries

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

Epictetus

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Emily Greene Balch

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Emily Bronte

The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

Emily Bronte

She burned too bright for this world.

Emily Dickinson

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

Emily Dickinson

How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

Emerson Fittipaldi

I wanted to be the best in the world.

Ellsworth Kelly

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

Henrik Ibsen

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Henrik Ibsen

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henri Nouwen

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

Heinrich Boll

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

Hazel Scott

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

Hod Lipson

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

Hiroyuki Sanada

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.

Heston Blumenthal

I am not the world's most confident person.