Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Babbitt

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Irving Berlin

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Paul Gray

In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach; it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to those who worked for it.

Paul Allen

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

Paul Auster

In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.

Paul Auster

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

Pat Barker

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Pat Barker

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Pamela Anderson

I was afraid of staying at the Playboy Mansion; I wanted to get a footing before I ventured into a world of hedonism.

Jupiter Hammon

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Judd Apatow

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.

Judd Apatow

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

Joseph Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bedthere is nothing sweeter in the world.

Joseph Brodsky

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Little Richard

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

Leonhard Euler

Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Leonardo DiCaprio

It’s easy to be an expert if you’re the only one in the world with an interest.

Leonardo da Vinci

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it.

Leonardo da Vinci

...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.

Paul Prudhomme

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

Paul Gauguin

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

Patrick Ness

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

Patrick Rothfuss

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Patrick Rothfuss

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Park Chan-wook

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Lily Cole

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

Leroy Hood

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Leon Kass

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Leon Panetta

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Leon Trotsky

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Lauren Myracle

I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.

Lauren Oliver

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.