(718 quotes found)
“Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.”
William Cowper
“The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.”
Washington Irving
“Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.”
Clifford Stoll
“The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pacific, creating a tall, furious cloud of steam.”
Robert Gross
“Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“I had never had a piece of toastParticularly long and wide,But fell upon the sanded floor,And always on the buttered side.”
James Payn
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: / Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Bible
“Actually, many years ago, we had a company-wide vote for our informal company-wide mascot, and the choices came down to the Boston tree fern, beef tape worm and a llama. And somehow the llama won the vote!”
Will Wright
“If I'm getting one, I'm assuming it's a wide circle.”
Michael Dawidziak
“I'm convinced I'm still going to fall off one and crack my head wide open.”
Tony Stewart
