Range Quotes · Page 7

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

— Laurie Metcalf

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

— Anonymous

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

— Brent Sexton

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

— Timothy Geithner

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

— Aries Spears

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice…

— R. D. Laing

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary…

— Eric Temple Bell

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision…

— Jack Welch

'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who…

— Satya Bhabha

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm…

— Bharati Mukherjee

“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range…

— Peter Steinhart

Instead of just saying, "I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle…

— Alison Gopnik

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over…

— Paul Johnson

What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major…

— Guillermo Gonzalez

The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the…

— Herbert Read

I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for…

— Serena Williams

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of…

— Victor Serge

There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels…

— Emil Nolde

Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic.

— Barack Obama

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

— John of Salisbury

In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift,…

— John Ruskin

For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.

— Clara

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

— Julie Payette

I wash my skin with Re-Nutrive Intensive Hydrating Skin Cleanser, no toner, and follow with the range's Re-Nutrive Intensive Age-Renewal and Eye…

— Aerin Lauder

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

— John Eaton

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's…

— George Santayana

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to…

— Lance Reddick

There is a clear link between protecting your car and home and protecting your life. So life insurance was a logical addition…

— Kevin Sinclair

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to…

— Bella Abzug

Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.

— Oswald Boelcke

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they…

— Mark Steyn

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just…

— Anonymous

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

— John F. Kennedy

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most…

— Takeshi Uchiyamada