Globes Quotes

• I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

  Prince Charles

  Two, Red, Sometimes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Dream, Moving, Heart

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• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Moving, Memorable

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

  Rainey Qualley

  Opportunity, Giving, Missing

  "Andie Macdowell Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe 2012" by NationalLedger.com, December 9, 2011.

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• The rest of the world needs the U.S. economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

  Timothy Geithner

  Ties, Order, Needs

  "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

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• For any of you who don't know, the Golden Globes are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker, and more easily bought.

  Ricky Gervais

  Oscars, Golden, Kim

  "Scoring Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Hit List". Ricky Gervais' speech as host at the 69th Golden Globe Awards, www.tv.com. January 15, 2012.

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• In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Men, Land

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• Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

  Tom Udall

  Men

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• Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.

  Reed Hastings

  Years, Looks, Becoming

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• I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

  Rainey Qualley

  Awards, Careers, Missing

  "Andie MacDowell’s Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe". www.accessonline.com. December 8, 2011.

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• We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

  James Inhofe

  Rights, Democracy, Privilege

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• A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Loss, Different, Firsts

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• Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

  Sonny Rollins

  Thinking, Sea, United States

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• One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

  William Godwin

  Men, Earth, Reason

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.243

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• Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.

  Jean-Marie Messier

  Communication, Technology, Age

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• We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Cells, Enemy, Realizing

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• Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

  John Boyd Orr

  Country, Communication, Years

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• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  Patrick Marber

  Nice, Thinking, Awards

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

  Theodor Herzl

  Law, Requirements, Firsts

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

  Don Herold

  New York, Cities, Sophistication

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

  Mark Hopkins

  Uplifting, Good Christian, Christianity

  Mark Hopkins (1886). “A Discourse Delivered at Williamstown, June 29, 1886: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Election as President of Williams College”

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• But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

  James Young

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Years, Data, America

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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Europe, Cities

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• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  Jim Talent

  Commitment, People, Liberty

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