Awe Quotes
565 quotes by 458 authors
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I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
— Jessica Chastain
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If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
— Alex Kapranos
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When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how…
— Dennis Cooper
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As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can…
— John Brunner
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What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns…
— Enric Sala
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I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business…
— Jane Goodall
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was…
— A. E. Hotchner
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I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the…
— Lucy Walker
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No.…
— Sue Thoele
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The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is…
— Winston Churchill
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Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent…
— Carl Jung
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Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the…
— Pipilotti Rist
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I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is.
— Ester Dean
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When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra…
— Benjamin Carson
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O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and…
— William Shakespeare
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest…
— William Hazlitt
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Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
— William Shenstone
Who Wrote These Awe Quotes
458 authors contributed a total of 565 Awe Quotes, led by these top contributors: