Sheer Quotes

488 Sheer quotes by 420 unique authors

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to… — Wilfred Trotter
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear. — Jann Wenner
I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort… — Denholm Elliott
I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially. — Mary Kom
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who… — Joss Whedon
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you… — Simon Mawer
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all… — John Drane
Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color helps me look… — Lindsey Vonn
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer… — Russell Smith
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60,… — Rex Tillerson
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and… — Kate Reardon
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went… — Neil Marshall
Cars bring me sheer joy. — Evan Spiegel
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place. — Shane Carruth
My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair… — John Updike
When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer melodrama of everyday… — Rick Perlstein
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. — Spike Jonze
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not… — Barry Ritholtz
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November,… — Thomas Mallon
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery… — Paul Di Filippo
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels… — Paul Di Filippo
Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones. — Suzy Parker
On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a… — Ernest Thompson Seton
That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught… — Susanna Hoffs
Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of… — Fritz Kreisler

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