Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Base

There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.

Raf Simons

The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

Bayard Taylor

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Lion Feuchtwanger

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Thomas Aquinas

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Helene Cixous

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Benjamin Disraeli

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Richard Ford

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Tullian Tchividjian

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Morihei Ueshiba

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

James Salter

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Ludwig von Mises

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

John Buchanan Robinson

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Kim Stanley Robinson

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.

Ken Wilber

One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution's realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.