Quotes About Wide Open Spaces

#1. A luxury meal was prairie sandwiches - two slices of bread with wide-open spaces between them.

Chic Murray

#2. I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Matthew Fox

#3. I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This - this - this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.

Beth Revis

#4. I'm a London lad, but I'm fascinated by America. I want to take a motorcycling trip across the country and see those wide open spaces.

Charlie Cox

#5. When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

Lenny Abrahamson

#6. 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.

Sara Paretsky

#7. The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap.

Robert Solow

#8. I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

Larry Fitzgerald

#9. It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.

Charles Emmerson

#10. You can get claustrophobia and agoraphobia - a fear of wide, open spaces - simultaneously on a spacewalk.

Chris Hadfield

#11. Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

Renita D'Silva

#12. People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe,

Anneli Rufus

#13. A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

J. D. Souther

#14. I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains
I sing my song to the free.

Pete Townshend

#15. Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?

Barbara Brown Taylor

#16. In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Clive Sinclair

#17. I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

Robert Taylor

#18. The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Charles Luckman

#19. When I spoke to her, I had the feeling that her thoughts had been nourished in wide-open spaces where talk was sparse and silence ruled.

Siri Hustvedt

#20. Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#21. King-sized? It would take up all my space. I need wide-open spaces.
She glanced at Kane for help, but he was rolling around on a matress and moaning in a loud, orgasmic manner. She rolled her eyes and heaved a sigh.

Christine Feehan

#22. Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Rem Koolhaas

#23. I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England.

Tess Gerritsen

#24. America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

Camille Paglia

#25. America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

Cathleen McGuigan

#26. Max: What's a period? George: It's a bullet we dodge, go get ready.

George Lopez

#27. It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are.

Roisin Turner

#28. The central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

Susan Faludi

#29. Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

Michael Palin

#30. In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

#31. The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.

Gary Ross

#32. Some sins, such as anger and lust, are like wild beasts. They have to be fought through habits of restraint.

David Brooks

#33. Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map; your actions produce the Motion; your persistence produces Monetary rewards.

Orrin Woodward

#34. The best law for Bible study is the law of perseverance.

D.L. Moody

#35. You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Terry Eagleton

#36. Every tree is known by its fruits. So a man is known his deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

Dale Carnegie