Vast Quotes

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Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares! — Eoin Colfer
We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of… — Anne Rice
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get… — Sarah Dessen
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship :… — Daniel Defoe
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with… — Carl Sagan
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life… — Adrian Tan
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of… — Douglas Adams
Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential.… — Maria V. Snyder
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the… — H P Lovecraft
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness… — Eckhart Tolle
My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's… — Gustave Flaubert
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait… — Philip Pullman
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid. He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will. He… — Karen Marie Moning
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish… — Andrew Sean Greer
When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all… — Susanna Clarke
When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride… — Donald Miller
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so… — Virginia Woolf
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched… — Laurie R. King

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