Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Owen

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

Norman Maclean

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

P. J. O'Rourke

Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Sam Harris

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

Michael Leunig

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

Mason Cooley

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

Jeanette Winterson

The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.

Georges Bataille

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Wayne Dyer

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.

Nicholas Stoller

Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.

Steve Coogan

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

John Tyler

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

Reynolds Price

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Ziggy Marley

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

Nostradamus

Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.

Ava Gardner

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood

Allen Ginsberg

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Anthony Hopkins

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Rumi

There’s nothing left of me. I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still a stone, or a world made of redness? It has no resistance to sunlight.

Thomas Pynchon

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

Victor Hugo

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.