Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Bottome

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

Queen Latifah

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Queen Latifah

New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

Pitbull

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

Pitbull

Show the World where you're from, show the World we are one...

Julian Barnes

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

Julian Barnes

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?

Jostein Gaarder

I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Joseph Hume

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Joseph Farah

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

Joss Whedon

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Joss Whedon

You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.

Joss Whedon

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

Kobe Bryant

Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one,

Kofi Annan

Invite politicians to dinner and let them tell the world how delicious it is. . . . They will proudly go around and say, 'I ate crickets, I ate locusts, and they were delicious.'

Kofi Annan

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

Kofi Annan

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

Kevin Kelly

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Emmylou Harris

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Emmitt Smith

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

Emmy Rossum

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

James Cook

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

James Altucher

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

Jake Epstein

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

Jacques Maritain

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

Jacques Maritain

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

Jacques Ellul

And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world

Henry Rollins

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Henry Rollins

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Henry Rollins

The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.

Henry Rollins

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.