Top 385 Broad Quotes

If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it’s not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you’re squandering what you have.
Jack Reynor
Mind you, I’ve always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Julie Burchill
If people watch ‘Broad City’ very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
Abbi Jacobson
My supporters are people who believe in being fiscally responsible and socially accepting. I think most people are in that category. Speaking with a broad brushstroke, those are my supporters.
Gary Johnson
Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.
Isabella Bird
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
Daniel J. Evans
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age – Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark – they process information so quickly and it’s not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
Thomas Haden Church
Asia’s governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies – and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Paul Samuelson
Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and magical about you.
Gina Torres
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas… or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, ‘What is electricity?’ Along with the images that go on the screen, there’s a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you’re aware of it or not.
Wayne Shorter
To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don’t use a computer when I write, and I don’t use a piano. I’m at a desk writing, and it’s very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
James Horner
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Maria Mitchell
When you think of the typical Teach For America corps m

When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can’t be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
Wendy Kopp
Nearly all edible seaweeds – or ‘sea vegetables,’ as they ought technically to be called – belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
Yotam Ottolenghi
A broad trend I’m completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I’m completely convinced that everybody’s going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I’m very interested in.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes – which can be fantastic – but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn’t even get close.
William Boyd
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
For so long, TV consisted of a limited number of shows a year, and those shows had to appeal to as many people as possible. The joy of TV now is that shows don’t have to be broad anymore – they can be small, weird, and niche.
Emily V. Gordon
I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I’ve been playing around with things on loops for days. I always paint in broad strokes – very quickly, I’ll feel out the larger structure – but it’s putting the details in that I find the hardest part.
Bonobo
There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic downturn, you need to stimulate. Germany seems to be an exception.
Joseph Stiglitz
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
Marc Andreessen
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what’s going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it’s this rash leap.
Chang-Rae Lee
The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children.
Margaret Geller
Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Kelly Miller
I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.
Yair Lapid
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
Isabella Bird
I’ve been grateful that ‘Time’s’ reach and mandate is so broad; anything you’re interested in, you can usually write about.
Nancy Gibbs
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
Everybody always thinks I’m a lesbian because I’m a very tough broad. I have a lot of lesbian fans.
Constance Zimmer
We’ve said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It’s not an ‘Internet movement.’
Alicia Garza
There’s a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
Joe Carnahan
Trying to capture the essence of India is almost like trying to bottle magic, which is hard to do because India is so broad and diverse – it’s controlled chaos. But there’s spirituality and wholeness to the people.
Greig Fraser
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I’m still doing.
Elaine Stritch
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap – the literary world and the world of rock music.
William Boyd
I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don’t write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.
Billy Collins
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
Franz Liszt
Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: ‘Laverne and Shirley’, ‘Starsky and Hutch 3’, ‘Cagney and Lacey’, ‘Wonder Twins Activate From Two Hot Broads’, ‘Little House on the Prairie: The Musical: The Movie’.
Amy Poehler
I’ve assembled a team with a broad variety of experiences to lead my Senate office.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.
Satya Nadella
Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don’t fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it’s OK to embrace that.
Michelle Carter
I’m good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.
Trudie Styler
By about chapter six of ‘Wolf Brother,’ I was having so much fun that I knew I wanted it to go on and I couldn’t tell Torak’s story in one book. So I sat down, and it took me about a week to plan in broad outline all six books.
Michelle Paver
In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
Martin Rees
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The ‘crownd’ is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of ‘St. Gaarge’ conquering the dragon.
Richard Jefferies
I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
Joichi Ito
Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.
Vic Mensa
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
‘Islamism’ itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey’s AKP party to al Qaeda.
Pankaj Mishra
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
Chen Shui-bian
The party of Tony Benn and Tony Blair has always been a broad church.
Wes Streeting