Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Heidegger

The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees.

Mario Puzo

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Marilyn Monroe

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

Marilyn Monroe

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Marilyn Monroe

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Nikki Reed

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

Nikki Giovanni

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Nikki Giovanni

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Nicole Krauss

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

Nicole Krauss

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

Nick Hornby

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

Matt Bomer

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

Mary MacLane

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

Mary MacLane

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

Mary MacLane

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Marvin Harris

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Marva Collins

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Marvin Gaye

I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.

Mark Twain

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Mark Twain

I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

Marian Keyes

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

Nicholas Stern

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

Nicholas Sparks

There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.

Nicholas Sparks

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...

Nicholas Sparks

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

Nicholas Sparks

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

Nawal El Saadawi

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Neal A. Maxwell

Education brightens a darkened world.

Neal A. Maxwell

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

Neal A. Maxwell

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

Mstislav Rostropovich

I played with the best conductors of the world.

Muddy Waters

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world...

Muhammad Ali

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!