World Record Quotes

#1. He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk.

Terry Pratchett

#2. We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Perle

#4. Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#6. Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

Snoop Dogg

#7. I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

George McGovern

#8. I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Missy Franklin

#9. To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that'll be know for three weeks and then you'll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it'll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it'll be in the world forever.

Michael Jackson

#10. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

Kendrick Lamar

#11. The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Phil Ramone

#12. If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

Barbara Corcoran

#13. I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

Jeff Mangum

#14. I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

Ryan Hall

#15. Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world.

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

#17. Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.

Audie Cornish

#18. The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet
it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight

Daniel Quinn

#19. The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

DJ Spooky

#20. For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Gore Vidal

#21. Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be positive. I'm a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Metta World Peace

#22. Perhaps I should call the Guinness Book people. I wondered what the world record was for not being sure whether you committed a string of murders?

Jeff Lindsay

#23. I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then ... find wholeness in the torn world.

Robert Adams

#24. It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Usain Bolt

#25. I'm quite happy there is a man in the world who can overcome my record, finally.

Larisa Latynina

#26. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Sally Pearson

#27. Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

Dan O'Brien

#28. Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

Sean Combs

#29. Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

Ed Sheeran

#30. The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

David Byrne

#31. Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

Christof Koch

#32. We have a wonderful history behind us ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.

Carter G. Woodson

#33. When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

Kieran Hebden

#34. When you talk about world record times, you have to understand that everything must be perfect the weather, the course, the temperature. It is not always enough to be in good shape.

Haile Gebrselassie

#35. I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

James Purefoy

#36. We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

Martin Parr

#37. 40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.

Bill Maher

#38. School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

Drew Barrymore

#39. I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster.

Heather Mills

#40. My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

Just Fontaine

#41. My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else?

Kevin Johnson

#42. Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Edward Abbey

#43. Oh, how this world needs Filipino trailblazers! Yes, we can be that.

Tim Liwanag

#44. I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Penn Jillette

#45. The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

Eberhard Weber

#46. The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

Sebastian Coe

#47. There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

Ryan Adams

#48. The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#49. It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.

Kathleen Raine

#50. I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim, ... I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.

Michael Phelps

#51. So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is for my fans in Japan. They'll be nice and get into it and have fun.' And it was the first record I made at my home studio.

Matthew Sweet

#52. When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

Haile Gebrselassie

#53. Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.

Karl-Erik Sveiby

#54. Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

David Coleman

#55. These incidents of answered prayer are not more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the world over could testify to, but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God.

Rosalind Goforth

#56. And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighborhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game.

Aleksandar Hemon

#57. Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

#58. Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

Debbie Stabenow

#59. Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

Susan Sontag

#60. The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.

Marc Riboud

#61. What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.

Marilyn Manson

#62. I like everything in this iPhone, iPod world where you can do everything all the time. Back in my time, you bought a vinyl record when you were a kid and took it home, and it took a bit of effort to actually get it out of the thing and not scratch it.

Rick Astley

#63. of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#64. When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.

Dan O'Brien

#65. One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

Bob Brown

#66. I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

Patti Smith

#67. The beauty of recording in L.A. is that most of the musicians that are on the record live here, so it was easy to get world class artists like Rick Braun to swing by and play a little trumpet, Everette Harp on sax, guitarist Paul Jackson.

Jeffrey Osborne

#68. If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Lorrie Moore

#69. Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel

#70. You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To voice the real and at the same time to create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks

Luc Delahaye

#71. We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

Michael Phelps

#72. I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#73. Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#74. I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

Alyson Stoner

#75. The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.

Murray Rothbard

#76. There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

#77. In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

Mark Nepo

#78. I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.

John Vanderslice

#79. On his world record triple jump - It's only jumping into a sandpit.

Jonathan Edwards

#80. For me, the movement has to be bigger than just a record. For me, a movement represents like taking over the world.

Miley Cyrus

#81. It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

Laurie Lee

#82. That's the difference between most oppressed peoples of the world and American blacks. They vow never to forget, and we want everything expunged from our record, sealed and filed away for eternity.

Paul Beatty

#83. Michael Schumacher deserved the driver's championship. To be honest, I didn't want to keep my record as the last Ferrari world champion; it's never done me any good!

Jody Scheckter

#84. I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

Inge De Bruijn

#85. I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.

Patti Stanger

#86. The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.

Maelle Gavet

#87. In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Viswanathan Anand

#88. You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

Madonna Ciccone

#89. I applied at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard after my band broke up. I really wanted to work there because it involved the love of my life, music. It was also located on the world famous Sunset Strip, a place I dreamed of going to ever since I was a teenager in the 80's to become a rock star.

K.D. Sanders

#90. Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

J.G. Holland

#91. Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

Leisel Jones

#92. You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

Joe Nichols

#93. Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.

Maurice Greene

#94. I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.

Kyp Malone

#95. Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

Jay Samit

#96. There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

Rick Perry

#97. The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Samuel Butler

#98. The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

Derek Clayton

#99. More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

Karl Taylor Compton

#100. Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

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