Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Galway Kinnell

Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

John Betjeman

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

Steve Crump

What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.

Robert Burton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Mike Strong

We matched up well with them. We were able to push them back off that 3-point line and make them shoot deeper than they probably would have liked.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Joey Fernandez

The guys are doing real good. I'm a lot deeper on the guys side than I am on the girls side.

Daniel Briere

It seems like we're digging deeper and deeper into a hole. Maybe we don't feel the urgency to produce. It's not something we can let go anymore. You can lose two or three, but not four, five going into the playoffs.

Sam Perlozzo

You can't keep going five innings. He's got better stuff to go deeper into the game than that.

Waris Ahluwalia

I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.

Richard Avedon

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.