Vast Quotes
1501 Vast quotes by 1104 unique authors
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects…
— Yann Martel
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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
— Pablo Neruda
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's…
— Octavia Butler
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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick
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No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see…
— Glen Cook
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Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning…
— Bill Bryson
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The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater…
— Thomas Wolfe
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He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The…
— J R Ward
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I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
— Lauren Oliver
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Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed…
— Virginia Woolf
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any…
— Pema Chodron
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Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.
— Laini Taylor
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It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements,…
— Neil Gaiman
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I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
— Clarice Lispector
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
— Tennessee Williams
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Saf keeps a vast range of bullies on hand at all times.
— Kristin Cashore
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The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great…
— Anne Rice
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
— Isaac Newton
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who…
— Stephen Fry
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Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast…
— David Mitchell
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