(718 quotes found)
“The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.”
Whittaker Chambers
“Seymour Peck's editorial hand ranged far, wide and deep, touching lightly but expertly He seemed less an editor of any sort than the very best sort of guardian angel.”
Walter Kerr
“Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Not deep the poet sees, but wide.”
Matthew Arnold
“That's the silver lining in the terrible thousand-mile-wide cloud of that storm.”
David Ropeik
“Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.”
Clifford Stoll
“It's kind of cool knowing there's a six-mile-wide rock in our solar system with my name on it,”
Bill Cooke
“We've got a damage path about a half mile wide.”
Bill Pippins
“We were keeping our fingers crossed and sounded a state-wide alert, but thankfully, no untoward incident was reported from any part of the state.”
Alok Sinha
