Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Hitchens

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Murray Gell-Mann

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

Muriel Rukeyser

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

Moby

Over time I just realised the world is a very complicated place, and there is not a single structured belief system that adequately and comprehensively describes every aspect of our existence. So that is my new approach to life and spirituality - I don't know anything, except on a very naive and subjective level.

Moby

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Moby

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Moby

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

Mindy Kaling

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

Fred Melamed

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

Fred Rogers

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

Fred Rogers

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Frank Herbert

What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?

George Henry Lewes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

George Harrison

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Haile Gebrselassie

I find the business world hard.

Haile Selassie

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

Gustav Heinemann

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Gunter Grass

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Graham Taylor

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

Graham Nash

This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

Jim Butcher

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

Jim Butcher

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Jessica Alba

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

H. P. Lovecraft

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

H. P. Lovecraft

All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. G. Wells

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

H. G. Wells

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

H. G. Wells

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State…

H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.