No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Writing gave me the world.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.

If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn’t be any goddamn wars in the first place.