World Quotes

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

~ Panayiotis Zavos

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

~ Kristin Scott Thomas

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

~ Cameron Russell

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

~ Rebecca Hall

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

~ Douglas Coupland

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

~ Simon Sinek

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.

~ Stephen Kinzer

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

~ George Clooney

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

~ Kevin Bacon

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

~ Juliette Lewis

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

~ Evel Knievel

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

~ Alice Waters

My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit. She was married to one of the most famous men in the world, and she didn't wear any makeup, ever. I mean, have you ever seen the wife of a man like that rock up with no makeup on? Because I haven't since.

~ Stella Mccartney

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

~ Pankaj Mishra

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

~ John Le Carré

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

~ Christian Bale

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

~ Dee Dee Myers

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

~ Guy Kawasaki

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

~ Garry Shandling

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

~ Hedy Lamarr

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

~ Marina And The Diamonds

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

~ Michael Eric Dyson

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

~ Larry Hagman

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

~ Ray Comfort

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

~ Eric Davis

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.

~ Lorde

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

~ Mark Helprin

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.

~ Oliver North

The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

~ Robert Crumb

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

~ Izabella Scorupco

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

~ Agnetha Faltskog

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

~ Mo Yan

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.

~ Ronan Farrow

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

~ Kurtis Blow

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

~ Georges Simenon

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

~ Richard Bach

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

~ William Shakespeare

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

~ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

~ Gael Garcia Bernal