Wide Quotes - Page 21

• The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

  Herbie Hancock

  Internet, Possibility, Range

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• It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

  Daryl Hannah

  Inspiring, Mean, Home Sweet Home

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.

  Maggie Lawson

  Snacks, Cake, Peanut Butter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, World, Damage

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  Dan Lipinski

  Home, Animal, America

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• A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

  David Lynch

  Interesting, Soul, Different

  "David Lynch on why he hates "It's A Small World"". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Careers, People, Mistress

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• Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Collaboration, Cooperation, Impossible

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• Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Self, Example, Needs

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

  Michael Mann

  People, Reacting, Screens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Party, Character

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Writing, Garden, Facts

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• A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

  George Muller

  Children, Blessing, Years

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• In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Japan, Style

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• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Eye, Animal

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

  Susan Orlean

  Ambition, Breathing, Games

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• You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

  Pope John Paul II

  Leader, Political, Religion

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• Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Successful, Reality, Pieces

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Children, Jealous, Actors

  "The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort". Interview with Jessica Winter, entertainment.time.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  Harold Pinter

  Smile, Views, Hands

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taste, Jazz

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• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  Quintilian

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Actors, Mouths

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 198), 1978.

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• Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

  Eli Roth

  Goal, Release, Theatrical

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