World Quotes

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

~ Mindy Kaling

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

~ Brooke Burke

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

~ Laurence Housman

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

~ Mamie Gummer

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

~ Justin Chon

I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

~ Libba Bray

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

~ Toni Collette

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

~ Brendan Behan

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

~ Rudolf Steiner

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

~ Spike Lee

The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

~ Sam Underwood

People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

~ Andy Dick

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

~ Morris Gleitzman

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

~ Andrew Cohen

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

~ Ben Affleck

The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

~ Max Baucus

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

~ Michael Pollan

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

~ James Taylor

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.

~ David Novak

We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.

~ Keri Hilson

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

~ Liz Williams

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

~ Peter James

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

~ Naveen Jain

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients desire to be. Los Cabos, Mexico is the ideal Engel & Volkers market, growing in popularity among world luxury travelers seeking exceptional properties for second home opportunities.

~ Anthony Hitt

I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

~ Jonny Wilkinson

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

~ Major Taylor

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

~ Lily Tomlin

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

~ Salman Rushdie

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

~ Russell Baker

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

~ Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

~ Allen Ginsberg

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.

~ Eileen Myles

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

~ Wallace Stevens