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Quotes About Vast

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.
~ William Gibson
It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.
~ William Gibson
Another vast omission is my failure to have quietly collapsed the Soviet Union and swept the rubble offstage when nobody was looking.
~ William Gibson
As I luxuriate in the discovery that I am no special sponge for sorrow, but merely another fallible animal in this stone maze of a city, I come simultaneously to see that I am the focus of some vast device fueled by an obscure desire.
~ William Gibson
I'm warning you. I'm going to get waxy. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else--- Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.
~ William Golding
To the North-West I looked, and in the wide field of my glass, saw plain the bright glare of the fire from the Red Pit, shine upwards against the underside of the vast chin of the North-West Watcher—The Watching Thing of the North-West…. That which hath Watched from the Beginning, and until the opening of the Gateway of Eternity came into my thoughts, as I looked through the glass …
~ William Hope Hodgson
The point here is simple: Some moments are vastly more meaningful than others. For tourists, the Popsicle Hotline is a 15-minute experience that pops out of the surrounding 2-week vacation. For students at YES Prep, Senior Signing Day is a single morning that rises above a 7-year journey.
~ Chip Heath
I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
~ Chris Cleave
I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
~ Chris Cleave
but remains a medium-sized, highly profitable chipmaker with a vast catalog of analog chips and sensors.
~ Chris Miller
In that moment I was aware of life pulsing all around me, indifferent to me. I was just a tiny part of a vast living, breathing ecosystem. I wasn't at the center of anything
~ Christina Baker Kline
to be old...anonymous as the clouds
~ Helen Adam
Vast flocks of fieldfares netted the sky, turning it to something strangely like a sixteenth-century sleeve sewn with pearls.
~ Helen Macdonald
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
How is it with the President? Is he powerless? He is felt from one extremity to the other of this vast Republic. By means of principles which he has introduced, and innovations which he has made in our institutions, alas! but too much countenanced by Congress and a confiding people, he exercises, uncontrolled, the power of the State. In
~ Henry Clay
The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.
~ Henry Corbin
Boswell goes into greater detail: 'His mind resembled the vast amphitheatre, the Coliseum of Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him.
~ Henry Hitchings
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Life has one vast stern likeness in its gloom
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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 the world.
~ Jeanette Winterson
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon.
~ Steven Cojocaru
America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.
~ Wojciech Jaruzelski
Life is short, the world is enormous. (Moominpappa)
~ Tove Jansson