Sprawling Quotes

32 quotes by 31 authors

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems… — Bill Bryson
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no… — Kenneth Grahame
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence.… — Hunter S. Thompson
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, â€˜This is warâ€™-that the people who were in… — W. Eugene Smith
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. — Robert Smithson
The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological… — Timothy Morton
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley,… — Jan Morris
You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality. — Jack Kerouac
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story. — John Green
The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan... — Rosita Forbes
A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all… — Elwyn Brooks White
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. — Jim Harrison
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can… — Russell T Davies
Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I… — Vash Young
It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything… — Gary Oldman
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else. — Alan Rickman
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these… — Jerry Saltz
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to… — Daniel H. Wilson

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