Wide Quotes - Page 23

• I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Running, Beach, Sea

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• No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

  Octavio Paz

  Way, Path, Easy

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1998). “In Light of India”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Wall, Fall

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• After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, People, Desire

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• Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

  Eugene O'Neill

  Space, Joy, Secret

  Eugene O'Neill (1996). “Beyond the Horizon”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Children, Husband

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• They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

  Kim Edwards

  World, Questioning, Distracted

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.364, Penguin

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• Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Ocean, Silence, Arms

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Typewriters, Discovery

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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 04, 2012

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• If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

  Maya Angelou

  Guy, Would Be, Ifs

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

  Shannon Hale

  Sky, Long, World

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• There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

  Jim Crace

  Space, Hug, Birth

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• It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Sports, Eye

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Healing, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Choices, Design, Desire

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin

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• Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.

  Rachel Caine

  Ideas, Car, Three

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Devil's Due”, p.132, Harlequin

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• The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

  Martin Amis

  Light, Years, Inches

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• A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Military, Native American

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• Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.

  Alice Sebold

  Quilts, Humble, Hands

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.229, Pan Macmillan

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• ...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

  Lois Lowry

  Moving, Light, Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Real, World, Fields

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.40, Variocity

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

  Carlos Castaneda

  War, Men, Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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