Sweeping Quotes

161 Sweeping quotes by 150 unique authors

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh
A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the… — Richard Hamming
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a… — Peter Agre
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing,… — Wilferd Peterson
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the… — Mark Twain
Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body. — Deborah King
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. — Robert A. Heinlein
Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor… — Sathya Sai Baba
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this -… — Stan Smith
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly… — Oliver B. Greene
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great… — Marcus Aurelius
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down… — James Herriot
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind… — LL Cool J
When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing… — Ashton Kutcher
Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to… — Frank Langella
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the… — Callan McAuliffe
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps… — Alan Moore
My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid… — Jane Pauley
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. — Billy Sunday
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a… — Teddy Wilson
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin

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