Awe Quotes · Page 6

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

— John Tillotson

“No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

— Roger Moore

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

— Irving Penn

The older I get, the more I travel the world, the more in awe I am of everything that is European.

— Jack Savoretti

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

— Anonymous

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

— Theodore Bikel

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

— Arthur Smith

It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly…

— Jens Lekman

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating…

— Edward Abbey

I've played the leads in two British TV series. I've done a bunch of mini-series. Everybody in Australia is a bit in…

— Robert Taylor

Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better…

— Robin Lane Fox

The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will…

— Tench Coxe

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty,…

— Lucy Corin

As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see…

— Orlando Bloom

My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This…

— Nova Ren Suma

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have such respect and awe for journalists who are able to communicate important information to the masses without sobbing.

— Janet Varney

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

— William Shenstone

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

— Paul Pearsall

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

— George Farquhar

Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe

— Lahiri Mahasaya

We are ambassadors of American style, but we're in awe of British style.

— David Lauren

I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent.

— Julia Quinn

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

— Douglas Adams

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

— Christopher Hitchens

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

— William Shatner

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

— John Heard

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

— Kathleen Raine

I'm in awe of what it takes to run a nation, especially our great nation.

— Joe Buck

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

— Daniel Kleppner

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

— E. W. Howe

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

— Ken Livingstone

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

— Laurence J. Peter

“The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask. -Rick Ridgeway”

— Susan Magsamen

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

— Joseph Campbell

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

— Jim Lovell

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

— Susan Griffin

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

— Arthur Symons