One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany.… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the… — Mary Swan Copy Share Image
Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was -… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There's a deli around the corner from my office where I'd get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was… — Keith Belling Copy Share Image
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Learning to never quit and keep going is the biggest thing. I don't think it was ever an epiphany, I think that's… — Muneshine Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“The epiphany was simply tucked away for consideration after we were back on campus. Sometimes a revelation comes with a flash of… — Jeffrey A. Lockwood Copy Share Image
“Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Why shall I speak of the damage of love? When it rejuvenates me just as much In love, people happen to say… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
I know Stephen King is uncompromising on the idea that writers should practise their craft every single day, and it clearly works… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
“It’s a little-known secret, and it should probably stay that way: attempting suicide usually jump-starts your brain chemistry. There must be something… — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“There's a moment when you realise all your worst fears have come true. When the fat girl stuffing her face in the… — Jennifer Turner Copy Share Image
“He is only one of a million no, a billion stories you could tell about the living beings on just this side… — Brian Doyle Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
It's true, I do love the semi-epiphany. For example, in "Fall Line," the character's final decision is less epiphany than imbecility. He… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
![“One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to…” quote by Ralph Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/364/ralph-gibson-36227_bigs_one-night-i-was-on-my-navy-ship-on-my-fi_2893554.png)
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