Broad Quotes - page 18

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. (Henry Villard)
We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range. View quote
John Eaton
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. View quote
John Fiske
In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. View quote
John Griffin Carlisle
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything. View quote
Mayer Hawthorne
My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. View quote
Michael Moritz
Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them. View quote
Michael Vartan
Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. View quote
Mike DeWine
I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. 'Enough Said' had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality. View quote
Nicole Holofcener
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny. (Nigel Cole)
One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi. View quote
Nina Fedoroff
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain. View quote
P. Sathasivam
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship. View quote
Pierre Pettigrew
The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding. View quote
Robert Klein
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar. View quote
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science. View quote
Robin Ince
What appealed to me about 'The Loved Ones' script was that it had this really theatrical element to it. I thought that the scope of this character is so broad, and there is so much fun to be had playing a crazy teenage loner. It was a great way to explore the delusions a mind can create. View quote
Robin McLeavy
A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism. View quote
Raymond Kelly
It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost. View quote
Sela Ward
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words. (Sutton Foster)
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor. View quote
Scott Thompson
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens . I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused. View quote
Tom Daschle
I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater - more theater than anything else - and when I was doing films, that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things. View quote
Tony Shalhoub
I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out. View quote
Tyson Chandler