World Quotes - Page 512

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.

I guess I'm depressed. I don't know. I can't explain it. Part of it is the irritability of being 84, and part of it is being not as physically strong as I once was. And part of it is my misunderstanding, I think, of what's going on in the world.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen.

We never shape the world . . . the world shapes us.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.