Awe Quotes

565 Awe quotes by 458 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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
I got really excited about Beyoncé, but it was Beyoncé. I think I was more in awe of how pleasant she is. — Ester Dean
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
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
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
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
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. — William Shenstone
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and… — Oliver Goldsmith
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile… — John Milton
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night,… — Mickey Hart
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and… — Wassily Kandinsky
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and… — Henry Clay

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