I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.
To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.
To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?
You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.
'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
I'm not involved with the female world.
I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
The whole world is a man's birthplace.
I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
I'm not a Starbucks guy. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, but I like to pay for the coffee of the other folks behind me in line. It typically costs me less than $10, and makes the other people feel good, but more importantly, it makes me feel so good, and random acts of kindness change the world one person at a time.
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.
With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
