Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Payne

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

Robert Pattinson

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

Robert M. Pirsig

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Robert M. Pirsig

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Robert Falcon Scott

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Robert Farrar Capon

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

Walt Disney

I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

Walt Disney

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

Vinod Khosla

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

Vinod Khosla

If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

Vinod Khosla

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

Vinton Cerf

We live in a very complex world.

Walt Whitman

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Saul Alinsky

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Sarah Dessen

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

Sarah Dessen

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...

Sarah Dessen

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

Sarah Dessen

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

Sarah Dessen

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

Sarah Dessen

one word could change the whole world

Sandra Bullock

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

Roger Scruton

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

Roger Ebert

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

Rod McKuen

and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

Rod McKuen

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Robin Morgan

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

Robin McKinley

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

Robert Zoellick

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

William Faulkner

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

Willard Wigan

The microscopic world became my obsession.

Willem Dafoe

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

Wilbur Ross

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

Whitney M. Young

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.