- I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.
- John Newcombe
- I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
- I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’
- Robert De Niro
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- We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
- Dorothy Day
- There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
- Guy Debord
- The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.
- Jacques Delors
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- I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
- Kurtis Blow
- People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
- Nellie Bly
- During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
- David Bohm
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- Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of “The Lord of the Rings”. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.
- Sean Bean
- Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
- Mary Ritter Beard
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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- Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
- Gore Vidal
- That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
- Gore Vidal
- Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
- Gore Vidal
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- The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
- Robert Fulghum
- I don’t think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that’s what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
- Bob Geldof
- The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
- Billy Graham
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- What if it should be God’s plan to people the world with better and finer material?
- Josiah Strong
- There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
- Billy Sunday
- What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
- Billy Sunday
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- Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
- My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
- Stephan Jenkins
- Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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