Quotes with wide-eyed

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  • William Morris Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • C. Thomas Howell Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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  • Carl Sagan Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Callie Khouri Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Lord George Byron Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
    and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
    The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
    Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the 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
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Louise Erdrich The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.
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    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Buford The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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