Wide Quotes - Page 26

• Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Swings, Sky, Razors

  Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler (1979). “Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical thriller”, Dodd Mead

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• And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

  Alison Croggon

  Knowing, Singing, Together

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• ...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Angel, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.368, Penguin

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• We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New York, Past, Car

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rivers, Water, World

  J. R. R. Tolkien (2009). “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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• X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.

  John Keats

  Kings, Warrior, Lakes

  "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" l. 37 (1820)

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• it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

  Carrie Underwood

  Moving, Love Is, Hands

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• Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

  Tom Perrotta

  Lying, Dark, Minutes

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• In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.

  Ai Yazawa

  Love You, Night, Sky

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• Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Horizon, Sucker

  Jennifer Crusie (2006). “Anyone But You”, p.71, HQN Books

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• I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice singing. If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Stupid, Light, Glowing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.77, Penguin

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• It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

  Raymond Carver

  Memories, Believe, Laughing

  Raymond Carver (1989). “Elephant and other stories”

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• As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

  Dante Alighieri

  Night, Light, Rose

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Inferno”, p.34, Penguin

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• Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Science, Two Sides, Coins

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.263, Macmillan

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• He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry," he said. She laughed. "Forgiven.

  Terry Goodkind

  Sorry, Eye, Kissing

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• He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

  Joe Hill

  Men, Law, Clothes

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• Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Moving, Home, Years

  J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.229, Broadway Books

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• --then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  I Love You, Thinking, World

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• King Duncan looked up and swept his gaze slowly around the room. Cassandra, he saw, was defiant as ever. Arald's face was set and determined. Halt and Crowley's faces were inscrutable in the shadows of their cowls. The two younger men were both a little wide-eyed- obviously uncomfortable at the emotions that had been bared in the room. There was still a hint of admiration in Will's eyes, however, as he continued to stare at the Baron. Rodney was nodding in agreement with Arald's statements, while Gilan made a show of studying his nails.

  John Flanagan

  Kings, Eye, Men

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• She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

  Charles de Lint

  Running, Heart, Doors

  Charles de Lint (2009). “Medicine Road”, p.180, Tachyon Publications

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• Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.

  John Connolly

  Song, Real, Lying

  "The John Connolly Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts".

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• The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

  Ezra Pound

  Sleep, America, Would Be

  Ezra Pound, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound”, p.182, New Directions Publishing

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• My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

  David Sedaris

  Feet, Want, Thanks

  "The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion". Book by Andy Borowitz, 2011.

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