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.

William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

Samuel Richardson

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

William Faulkner

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

William Blake

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

James Joyce

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Mick McCarthy

Kelvin has been great and I'm delighted he's proving what a good keeper he is.

Steve Bleasdale

He is young, he wants to improve as a player and we are delighted to have him here.

Mark McGhee

I was delighted with Joe. Physically he is a real presence as a centre-forward. His touch is good and he wins headers. It was a shame we couldn't provide a platform for him to win the game for us.

George Gray

I was delighted to be invited to the Dutch Consulate in Edinburgh to receive their medal from Michael Hughes, the Dutch Consul.

Ken Schanzer

Whatever it is we're paying, ... we're delighted to be in this relationship. We want to keep going forever.

Mike Baker

We are extremely delighted that we are on the eve of a launch that will mark the start of the cornerstone of the space station.

Ian McGeechan

Lawrence is one of the giants of the English and world game and we are, of course, delighted that he is remaining with us for a further 2 years.

Lamine Diack

I am delighted to see such strong interest from so many different parts of the world.

Aguri Suzuki

I am delighted to have signed two drivers with such great experience.