Sheer Quotes

488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the… — Jeff Greenfield
From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. — Bette Davis
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was… — Marianne Faithfull
It's through sheer will that I can sing. — Harvey Fierstein
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing… — Gary Hamel
Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my… — Mohsin Hamid
I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and… — Tom Hanks
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. — Heinrich Heine
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier. — James Hetfield
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such… — Anthony Hopkins
If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are… — Rush Limbaugh
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and… — John Lydon
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. — Shirley MacLaine
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes… — Henry Miller
Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals… — Ingrid Newkirk
Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. — Carroll O'Connor
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. — Steven Pinker
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. — Jerry Saltz
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has… — Rob Sheffield
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. — Charles Spurgeon
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability… — Jennifer Weiner
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. — Johnny Weissmuller
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — Elwyn Brooks White

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