Wide Quotes

1556 Wide quotes by 1193 unique authors

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else… — Tim Vine
If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. — Orson Welles
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. — Frances E. Willard
There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment… — Ricky Williams
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. — Jane Hamilton
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling… — Anne Rivers Siddons
No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I… — Octavio Paz
In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall… — Dag Hammarskjold
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo
I am not deep, but I am very wide. — Honore de Balzac
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell… — Eugene O'Neill
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding… — J D Salinger
They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning. — Kim Edwards
Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms… — Jodi Picoult
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it… — Douglas Adams
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou
If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide. — Maya Angelou
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to… — Carlos Castaneda
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life… — Shannon Hale
There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall. — Jim Crace
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. — Kurt Vonnegut
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than… — Rebecca Solnit

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