#world

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#agencies #appetite #both #century #congenial

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#face #geographic #got #i #idea

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room. ↗

— Carol Channing

#dressing room #enough #goes #hit #know

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#audiences #booked #came #confirmation #doing

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway. ↗

— George Michael

#by the time #certain #i #left #parts

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. ↗

— David Miliband

#change #compete #culture #disruptive #economic

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#anything #both #cowboys #culture #dominating

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1. ↗

— John McEnroe

#i #i can #look #months #need

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#about #fatherhood #finding #i #inner

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons