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Quotes About Wide

Conway's eyes went glassy and wide. Panic shivered in his brown irises. He took a jerky step back and threw his arms out to his sides, touching each corpse.
~ Ilona Andrews
The only advice I can give is to absorb as much as you can from as wide a spectrum as you can. If you're in a rock band and only soak up Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple kind of beginnings, then you're not going to have much leeway.
~ Ian Gillan
The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.
~ Byron Webber
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
~ T. E. Hulme
Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tendi his garden in content, someone had written once for this wide world has no greater wonder.
~ George R.R. Martin
Taos is] a high, wise, sage-covered plain. In the evening, with the sun at your back, it looks like an ocean, like water. The color up there is different . . . the blue-green of the sage and mountains, the wildflowers in bloom. It's a different kind of color from any I'd ever seen---there's nothing like that in north Texas or even in Colorado. And it's not just the color that attracted me either The world is so wide up there, so big.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
~ Bertrand Russell
life is too narrow to walk in but wide to run throw
~ Jack Daniels
Sir Maugre's erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. —Confucius
~ Neal Stephenson
the armor of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs is down.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from
~ Jack London
world is really wide. You will get a new opportunity at every new turn. So, be creative and be skillful. And the best skill is to use your mind rightly. Your mind is your power and your power is your destination.
~ James Clark
Heaven's net is indeed vast.Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.
~ Lao Tzu
The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.
~ Laura Ruby
how wide his shoulders were, like a swimmer's, his skin the color of tea, of fall leaves toasted by the sun.
~ Celeste Ng
The wide range of religious ideas and their existence at a very low culture stage, precludes the assumption that religious ideas are generated in the same conscious way as are scientific theories.
~ Chapman Cohen
Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
~ Gus Van Sant
He was surprised to find that beyond his puzzlement he had few misgivings, and none at all on his own behalf. There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.
~ James Hilton
There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.
~ James Hilton
NOOOO! On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.
~ James Patterson
He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet.You looove me, he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,You love me this much.
~ James Patterson
The wisps of her crisp dark hair blew about her as she stooped, her eyes were big and wide and dark, when she looked up again, strange, startled, shy and sardonic at once.
~ D. H. Lawrence
But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.
~ Wendell Berry