Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard John Neuhaus

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Woody Allen

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

William Faulkner

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Richard M. Nixon

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Richard Rohr

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

Will Smith

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

Vincent Van Gogh

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

Salvador Dali

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Van Jones

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

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.

Joseph Campbell

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Helene Cixous

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Haruki Murakami

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Mads Mikkelsen

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.