Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Edgar Mitchell

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

Tom Stoppard

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

John Stott

...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

Logan Pearsall Smith

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Thomas Merton

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

William James

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

B. F. Skinner

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Kevin Rooney

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

David Mitchell

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

David Nevins

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Rig Veda

When fire burns the enthusiasm is worth seeing. People, who are enthusiastic and happy, lethargy and boredom never plague them.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Charlaine Harris

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Ben Edlund

The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Cecil Beaton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Carrie Underwood

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Bill Bryson

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

Bette Davis

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Paul Horn

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

Courtney Smith

Mostly they keep them put away, but if they get bored they might play a game or take a picture.

Danny Boyle

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

Shawn Mendes

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.