Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mcewan

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.

Ian Mcewan

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

Ian Fleming

The World Is Not Enough

Hugh MacDiarmid

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Horace Mann

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

Homer

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

Hunter S. Thompson

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Humphrey Bogart

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Humphrey Bogart

The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

Howard Stringer

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

Howard Shore

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

Howard Stern

I'm going to take over the world. Everyone watch out, you're in big trouble.

Honore de Balzac

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Harold Pinter

The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

Harold Ramis

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

James Dean

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

James Boswell

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Jamaica Kincaid

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Jacqueline Woodson

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

James Frey

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?

Izabella Scorupco

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

Isaac Mizrahi

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Isaac Marion

When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.

Isaac Marion

Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.

Isaac Marion

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

Isaac Asimov

No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

Isaac Asimov

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Immanuel Kant

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Elon Musk

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

Elton John

And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

Elton John

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.