Steeped Quotes
59 quotes by 58 authors
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They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.
— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
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I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is…
— John Muir
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Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
— Renee Fleming
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Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one…
— Mira Nair
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like…
— Pablo Neruda
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
— Virginia Woolf
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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
— Douglas Adams
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When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion…
— Flann O'Brien
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She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio,…
— James Thurber
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The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with…
— Virginia Woolf
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with…
— Neil Armstrong
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We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as…
— Stefan Zweig
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
— Lloyd Alexander
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I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.
— Amy Tan
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I…
— Iggy Pop
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So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.
— John Benjamin Hickey
Who Wrote These Steeped Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 59 Steeped Quotes, led by these top contributors: