Awe Quotes · Page 3

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

— Emily Dickinson

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

— Paul Valery

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

— Llewelyn Powys

“In nature, every distraction is an inspiration.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Paint what you see, not what you know.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Awe is the best drug in the world

— Jason Silva

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

— Allen Ginsberg

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

— Simon Boswell

I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

— Mark McGwire

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

— Benjamin Franklin

I've seen people being in awe of Anurag Kashyap, but I'm not a fangirl.

— Taapsee Pannu

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

— Kate Elliott

I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.

— Tana French

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.

— Joan D. Chittister

Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll…

— Mameve Medwed

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more…

— Christopher Hitchens

“No label can define the immensity of your True nature. You are the awareness that precedes every label, the awareness that is…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,…

— Frank McCourt

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And…

— Leonard Cohen

The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King…

— Charlie Pierce

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring…

— Eric Weiner

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

— Herman Melville

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

— Patrick Carman

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

— Shirley MacLaine

Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.

— Rajneesh

The principal person in a picture is light.

— Edouard Manet

I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe.

— Deborah Sampson

“Wonder is the starter kit for innovation”

— Tara Lemmey

AI is both awe inspiring and intimidatingly capable.

— Bryan Johnson

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

— Robert Collier

“Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds.”

— Erica Goros

I fixed it.. are you going to break it again?

— Alexia

We do not see with our eyes, but through them.

— Ken Danby

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

— August Strindberg

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Not 'Revelation'-'tis that waits/ But our unfurnished eyes

— Emily Dickinson