Top 1200 Wide World Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

When I look at acts, I look at the worldwide potential. And what travels wide is melody.

I don't mind being labeled as a political songwriter. I've chosen to do that. What really annoys me is being dismissed as a political songwriter. That really pains me, because life isn't all about love; it's not all about politics, either. It's a beautiful mixture of events that absolutely baffle you, and you think, "Why can't I do something about that?", whether those events are in your bedroom, or out there in the wide world. In our daily lives we engage with them at different times, and I'm trying to write about the whole human experience, or my perspective on it anyway.

I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

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

I can play as a No. 8, a No. 10, out wide. Wherever I play, I'll be happy, I'm sure.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

If I could coach LeBron James for one year, I could make him an All-Pro wide receiver.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

If I have to point to something specific with the way I move my camera, I love to do it with a wide lens. I like to show you as much of the space as I can, even if I'm following a character.

Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.

I think the people you have to fear most in life are the people who dream with their eyes wide open.

If I'm out wide, and they put a linebacker on me, I think that's a mismatch every time, regardless of who is on me.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

The Kerala market may be small, but the reach is very wide. I am told Malayalis in Russia and Paris, too, watch my films, and that's something!

Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

You make America great by making America available to a wide variety of people.

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

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

One thing that's always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.

I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!

Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.

What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.

The role of liquidity in systemic events provides yet another reason why, in the future, a more system wide or macroprudential approach to regulation is needed.

I listen to everything. My playlists are wide-ranging. I listen to classic rock, gospel, Christian, soul.

I'm a big podcast guy, I have my own podcast called 'Wide Open.'

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share.

My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.

I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

I like to dress in edgy black leather and denim, but I like a wide range of things.