- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
Makeup is where my career is going, but I would love to also indulge in music. It's still one of my absolute favorite things in the world.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wow, a left-wing leader getting a good reception at a rock festival. What kind of crazy world is it we live in that that kind of thing happens?
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Muppets' was very much an exercise in anti-CG and the anti-effects world. It was very much in camera. We wanted to create a world where tangible puppets walked around and talked to each other. You could touch them. You could meet them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020