(152 quotes found)
“The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey.”
Woody Allen
“A man whom both the waters and the wind,In that vast tennis-court, have made the ballFor them to play upon.”
William Shakespeare
“We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that”
D.H. Lawrence
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Inside, the cathedral is a Gothic forest dappled in violet twilight and vast with quiet.”
Wendy Insinger
“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”
Alexander The Great
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity”
Arnold Bennett
