#sweeping

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

Love is sweeping the country. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#love #love is #sweeping

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. ↗

— James Herriot

#best #clothing #cold #down #early

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ↗

— Shirley Conran

#couches #housekeeping #inspirational #rest #resting

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. ↗

— Teddy Wilson

#concert #concert hall #get #hall #hear

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#again #assumption #because #broad #crawling

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#how #i #like #master #moving

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich. ↗

— Stephen J. Field

#assault #become #beginning #capital #contests

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. ↗

— John Burns

#brutality #country #depressed #i #i am

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#even #ii #major #more #needed