Seize Upon Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. — Dean Koontz
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon… — Albert Einstein
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over… — Philip James Bailey
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he… — Anton Chekhov
But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is… — Ken Wilber
"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away." — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to… — Orison Swett Marden
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it. — Spartacus
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has… — Vikram Seth
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open… — Karen Armstrong
Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it… — William Shakespeare

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