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Quotes About Expansion

Who can even imagine what that would mean, for blue to be—well, more? All
~ Mark Doty
The life of the poem might be extended in ways you cannot know, and continue in a world so far from yours as to be nearly unimaginable. The circle that is the outer edge of your life extends, and goes on extending.
~ Mark Doty
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language.
~ Mark Dunn
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of one's language were the limits of one's world. By coming up with fresh and arresting words to describe the world accurately, the writer expands the boundaries of her world, and possibly her readers' world, too. Real writing can do what R. P. Blackmur said it could: add to the stock of available reality. There
~ Unknown
The reader learns the language of herself; she is humanly enhanced, enlarging the previously constricting circle that made up the border of what she's been... her consciousness has been expanded.
~ Unknown
I have no way to defend my borders but to expand them,
~ Unknown
when it comes to finding out about new jobs - or, for that matter, new information, or new ideas - "weak ties" are always more important than strong ties.
~ Unknown
The historical origins of today's enormously expanded mass incarceration system lie in the ways U.S. state power responded to black and other dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s. The frenzy of concern with such dissidents prompted key state leaders to target entire racialized communities from which dissidents might come. To
~ Unknown
Investigative journalist Chris Hedges citing ACLU statistics notes that between 1970 and 2015 U.S. prisons have mushroomed by 700 percent.
~ Unknown
I was an infinitely hot and dense dot.
~ Mark Leyner
A better and less commonly used solution would be to use two underscores at the front of the method name only: __gatherAttrs for us. Python automatically expands such names to include the enclosing class's name, which makes them truly unique when looked up by the inheritance search. This is a feature usually called pseudoprivate class attributes, which we'll expand on in Chapter 31 and deploy in an expanded version of this class there.
~ Unknown
Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.
~ Mark Nepo
I read for pleasure, to expand my world, to learn more, to live outside myself, yet enrich my inner life.
~ Mark Rubinstein
Writing creates new people & worlds. When you read, you enter into new people & worlds. When you read and write, it's the best of all worlds.
~ Mark Rubinstein
by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon from "The Man in the Mirror
~ Mark Strand
I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.
~ Paul Tagliabue
I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.
~ Lindsay Lohan
I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.
~ Tracy Morgan
... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.
~ Wilhelm II
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
~ Terence McKenna
We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.
~ Daniel Goldin
There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.
~ Neil Turok
I get really excited imagining what we can do in the future with broadband.
~ Julius Genachowski