Little World Quotes

#1. Pope smiled. "You're thinking all wrong, boy. There's no such thing as law or government inside this room. It's just you and me. I am the one and only authority in your little world, whose borders are these walls. I could kill you right now if I wanted to.

Blake Crouch

#2. So her safe little world would never be safe again ... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

Mercedes Lackey

#3. I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.

King Tuff

#4. Nothing feels better than listening to the lament of your own heart- so unanimous in its own little world.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#5. It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.

Christopher Paolini

#6. A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great worls without

Henry James

#7. It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

John Donne

#8. I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. He had made money his god. As soon as that god was gone out of his little world there was nothing more to worship; and when a man's object of worship is gone he has no more to live for.

Charles M. Sheldon

#10. I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

Anjelica Huston

#11. This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.

Olive Schreiner

#12. It was like adults had their own little world that we weren't allowed to be a part of, and it didn't make sense because we were part of the world, too.

Susan Pogorzelski

#13. It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

Jared Leto

#14. The private little world that I create with my music is something that most people like to listen to alone and get into.

Cat Stevens

#15. She had no doubt her safe little world was about to be well and thoroughly rocked, and who knew if it would even be recognizable after he was done with her

Cherrie Lynn

#16. I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dana Spiotta

#17. The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

Susan Powter

#18. I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. We were the creatures desired throughout the ages ... foolish humans didn't even realize it, living in their own little world.

Kay Harding

#20. Little world, full of little people
shouting for recognition, screaming for love,
Rolling world, teeming with millions,
carousel of the hungry,
Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do.
The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.

James Kavanaugh

#21. Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#22. Desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out, was a profusion of geography, of atmosphere, of full empty air.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. With every film, we form a small little world for a period of time. Everybody is close, and then one fine day everything is over. That can throw you off. So you have to learn to take things in your stride and not get too emotional about people or situations.

Katrina Kaif

#24. Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Paracelsus

#25. They say that Heaven is like TV ... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

Laurie Anderson

#26. I was so taken by HIM, but he was not Count Vronsky or Rhett Buttler. But in my little world he was as dashing and handsome. I knew it was a doomed affair. I knew it instinctively.

Cecilia Scott

#27. find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations," he said. "I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite." He

Santa Montefiore

#28. This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own ...

Woodrow Wilson

#29. I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

Haruki Murakami

#30. Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

Maynard James Keenan

#31. There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Robert Southey

#32. A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Corita Kent

#33. That's the best part about being a kid. Nothing seems impossible until someone bigger and older tells you it is. I grew up in a lovely little world where nothing was too far out of reach if I wanted to work for it. I think I still live in that world.

Lindsey Stirling

#34. I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling.

Kelli Williams

#35. Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.

Tom Baker

#36. My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

Kevin Bacon

#37. The problem is someone will try to convince you
That they know the answer no matter the question
Be wary of those who believe in a neat little world
'Cause it's just ... crazy - you know that it is

Dave Matthews

#38. If everyone became a little god in his own little world and worked to make his little world a better place, the world becoming paradise on earth would cease to be a myth

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#39. He looked around at the others ... They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has noticed the weather. Maybe that's how the world was now ... Everyone was so wrapped up in his or her own little world that no one ever really saw anything anymore.

David Baldacci

#40. What plan did he think I was hatching to overthrow their little world?

Stephenie Meyer

#41. He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

Thomas Jefferson

#42. YouTube is such a funny little world. You can create a fanbase.

Lindsey Stirling

#43. Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Alexandre Dumas

#44. It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Tim DeChristopher

#45. The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

A.B. Simpson

#46. Set your sail to the big world, to the big ports but never forget your little world, your little port!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.

Wilkie Collins

#48. Yes, it was possible that the little world, on its voyage among all the stars, might become like that; a boat on which one could travel no longer, from which one could no longer look up and confront those bright rings of revolution.

Willa Cather

#49. Father
Break my heart for what breaks yours
Give me open hands and open doors
Put your light in my eyes and let me see
That my own little world is not about me

Matthew West

#50. I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way ... I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

John Waters

#51. It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

Lynn Flewelling

#52. The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.

Dick Van Dyke

#53. This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#54. I am a little world made cunningly.

John Donne

#55. Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Gretchen Rubin

#56. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

William Shakespeare

#57. Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.

Jerry Spinelli

#58. When you make a business you're making a little world.

Derek Sivers

#59. You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

Origen

#60. University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.

Mhairi McFarlane

#61. Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

James St. James

#62. I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

Lou Reed

#63. The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Philip Sidney

#64. The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

Francis Quarles

#65. I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Virginia Woolf

#66. And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.

Shelley Duvall

#67. I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

Nicholas Brendon

#68. The thing is, we [celebrities are] all just people living our lives, doing our thing. But, I honestly tend to live in my own little world, and am blissfully unaware of so much.

Chris French

#69. [ ... ] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

Haruki Murakami

#70. I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in.

Melina Marchetta

#71. A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'

Wallace Shawn

#72. I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Famke Janssen

#73. ...regardless of whether or not God actually exists, in my little world my experience of the Divine remains real and guides me in ways that I don't believe I would be guided if it were not real to me.

Vernon A. McGuffee II

#74. There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

Stefan Zweig

#75. Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Joel Hodgson

#76. Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It's amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.

Pierce Brown

#77. A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.

Dawn Olivieri

#78. Most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition.

Haruki Murakami

#79. It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

Robin Benway

#80. And here is a bed of roses for the great king now beyond us and our petty little world.

Michelle Shen

#81. I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

Lauren Myracle

#82. We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Stephen Malkmus

#83. Chefs are leaders in their own little world.

Eric Ripert

#84. We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.

Megan Martha White

#85. We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

Marc Jacobs

#86. On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper.

Karen Maezen Miller

#87. I agree. Each book is like a little world. You can carry it in your hand, and, yet, the space it creates in your mind is infinite.

Santa Montefiore

#88. I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

Candis Cayne

#89. Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Edward Abbey

#90. A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Beverley Nichols

#91. Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

John Frusciante

#92. The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.

Zig Ziglar

#93. In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Charles Dickens

#94. You can't start a fire
Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark

Bruce Springsteen

#95. Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write anything other than my stuff in Jersey and what we were talking about, like that little world, like if I can throw my Aunt Janice into it, I'm cool, but otherwise I'm screwed.

Diane Ruggiero

#96. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James Weldon Johnson

#97. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#98. I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

Ed Speleers

#99. AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Joe Perry

#100. You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation.

Arthur Lydiard