The Whole Wide World is a 1979 compilation album by British new wave musician Wreckless Eric, intended to break him in the American market. It consists of his singles up to that point, some b-sides and selected tracks from the albums Wreckless Eric and The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric.
In 1980, an LP with the same track listing was added as a bonus to the album Big Smash!.
Famous quotes containing the words wide and/or world:
“This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,—
No higher than the soul is high.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)