Wide Quotes - Page 15

• At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Two

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.157, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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• Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Two, Lenses

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• The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Teamwork, Community, Decision

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• If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nfl, Balls

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• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Truth, Past

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

  Larry King

  Strong, Competition, Broke

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• I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Art, Home, Ambition

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Boyer Lectures 2011”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

  Jonathan Edwards

  Doors, Christ, Mercy

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• ... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.

  Tim O'Brien

  Eye, Kissing, Numbness

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, Oft have I seen the war of winds contend, And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend, Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn, The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne, As light straw and rapid stubble fly In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.

  Virgil

  War, Dark, Agriculture

  Virgil (1830). “Virgil”, p.79

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• Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

  Sam Harris

  Failure, Wrong Answers, Problem

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a double-wide mobile home directly across from (New Prospect Baptist) church, .. The mobile home even had tie-down straps on it, but it was thrown clear across the highway. Part of the mobile home struck the church, and part of the frame ended up in the woods behind the church.

  John Robinson

  Home, Ties, Church

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• There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Fall, Men

  "John Barleycorn" by Jack London, (Ch. II), 1913.

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• Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

  Jack London

  Consciousness, States, Pursuit

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.451, Delphi Classics

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• If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

  Paul Johnson

  Doors, Ifs

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• It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

  Edgar Wright

  Fun, Thinking, Agents

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

  Russell Simmons

  Hip Hop, Culture, Hips

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. September 26, 2002.

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• On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.

  Linus Torvalds

  Important, Different, Development

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• ...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Justice, Democracy, Cost

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• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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• I always loved mascara and eyelash curlers to make your eyes look very open and wide and when I'm having a conversation with somebody that's always the first thing I'm attracted to, so I've been into mascara since I was little.

  Erin Brady

  Eye, Looks, Littles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Faults, Recognition, Talent

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• Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open; let everything enters the house!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors, House

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• Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

  Paul Tournier

  Men, Perspective, Enemy

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