World Wide

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or wide:

“The popularity of disaster movies ... expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)

““How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense.””
—George Herbert (1593–1633)