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Quotes About Wide-ranging

Over the years I've worked in everything from R&B, pop, country to rock 'n' roll to heavy rock, alternative... if there's one thing that my manager tells me off for, it's that I am a little too eclectic, that I have trouble focusing.
~ Chesney Hawkes
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
~ James Buchan
I've led a very eclectic life.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
The early stages of a creative thought, the ones that count, do not arise from jigsaw puzzles of specialization. The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world sees.
~ Edward O. Wilson
I have a very broad range of life experiences.
~ Gabriel E. Gomez
What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.
~ Casey James
I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
~ J. J. Watt
On top of that, from a big picture perspective
~ Garrett Sutton
With all his amateurish fumbling, Martin had one characteristic without which there can be no science: a wide-ranging, sniffing, snuffling, undignified, unselfdramatizing curiosity, and it drove him on.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
~ Balzac
I'm doing this record called 'Epicloud.' Over the course of the full record, there's sort of new agey stuff, jazzy stuff, really heavy stuff. We basically cover the gamut.
~ Devin Townsend
I've got an 'eckilectic' reading list.
~ George W. Bush
Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
~ Barack Obama
My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.
~ Brendon Urie
I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.
~ Don Cheadle
I love writing comedy and being a part of it, but as a visual, physical presence in a story, I probably am more impactful in drama. It's not really a tribute to my dexterity and wide-ranging talent so much as it is a person finally getting to where they should've been from the start.
~ Bob Odenkirk
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
~ Vince Gill
The fact that we humans are indeed omnivorous is deeply inscribed in our bodies, which natural selection has equipped to handle a remarkably wide-ranging diet.
~ Michael Pollan
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
~ Naomi Scott
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
~ Gary Clark, Jr.
I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive.
~ Britne Oldford
The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
~ Chuck Hogan
In the Social Democratic jargon of the time, the term 'propaganda' had connotations that were very different from those it later acquired. It did not mean simplistic messages used to bombard passive targets, but rather an intensive and wide-ranging education that was initiated by the workers. 'Propagandized worker' was therefore a title of honour, an indication of potential leader status.
~ Lars T. Lih
I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.
~ Jerry Harrison