Feat Quotes
110 Feat quotes by 98 unique authors
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The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at…
— John F. Carlson
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My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish…
— Brandon Mull
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To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no…
— Georges Braque
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A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of…
— Ben Shahn
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... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled,…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does…
— Marcus Garvey
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A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
— Criss Jami
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so…
— Joshua Foer
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing…
— Sylvia Plath
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat.…
— Gary Ross
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did,…
— Bob Uecker
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It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and…
— Peter Matthiessen
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It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars,…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across…
— Etty Hillesum
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I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and…
— Christopher Paolini
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I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete.…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
— Graham Greene
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For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.
— Julie Garwood
Who Wrote These Feat Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 110 Feat Quotes, led by these top contributors: