World Quotes

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.

~ Saul Leiter

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

~ Tara Brach

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

~ Elizabeth Peyton

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

~ Gene Weingarten

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

~ Michael Crichton

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

~ Jeff Kinney

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

~ Steven Wright

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

~ Seal

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

~ Matt Groening

The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.

~ Tony Scott

I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

~ Eileen Ford

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

~ Kris Holden-Ried

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

~ Anna Gunn

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

~ Leigh Hunt

Imagination rules the world.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

~ William Blake

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

~ Stephen King

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

~ James Dean

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.

~ Guy Davenport

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

~ Ben Okri

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

~ Maimonides

Cinema is a world of imagination.

~ Marjane Satrapi

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

~ Ivan Krastev

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.

~ Shawn Mendes

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

~ John Irving

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

~ Jerry Saltz

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

~ Quincy Jones

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

~ Phylicia Rashad

If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.

~ Margo Jefferson

I loved the world of imagination.

~ R. A. Salvatore

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

~ Elizabeth Drew

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

~ Patti Smith