Sheer Quotes

488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the… — Del Howison
People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius… — Curtis W. Fentress
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is,… — Ralph Adams Cram
I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. — Lavrenti Lopes
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in… — Ben Macintyre
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... — William Butler Yeats
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not… — Jack Kevorkian
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge,… — Meher Baba
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire. — Don Henley
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract… — Walter J. Phillips
Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer… — Walter J. Phillips
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. — Walt Disney
That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of… — Marcus Garvey
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;… — John Muir
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. — Matthew Arnold
I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball… — Zinedine Zidane
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse… — Scott Anderson
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. — C.S. Lewis
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head… — Tom Stoppard
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. — Paul Westerberg
It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I… — Eva Gabor
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical… — Henry Louis Gates

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