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Quotes About Elevation

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.
~ George Eliot
You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Up is never where you are now.
~ David Belasco
Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.
~ Dave Eggers
It behoves the art establishment to elevate them to a higher plateau as fast as possible, to make them unavailable, aesthetically, to a low art market...[The art establishment] extends its parameters to capture the new thing and elevate it from low art to high art—successfully enough to increase the commerce proposition that goes along with it—and to consign the idea of art to a particular world.
~ David Bowie
as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over fans and the Convexity's glass palisades at desperate speeds, soaring north, sounding a bell-clear and nearly maternal alarmed call-to-arms in all the world's well-known tongues.
~ David Foster Wallace
I am a giant, a mountain, a planet. Everything else is far off below. My footsteps are countries, my shadow a time zone. I watch from high windows. I wash in high clouds.
~ David Foster Wallace
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
~ William Shakespeare
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
~ William Shakespeare
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
~ William Shakespeare
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~ Witold Gombrowicz
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
~ Yann Martel
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God.
~ Yann Martel
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
~ Yann Martel
There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.
~ Hermann Broch
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
~ Unknown
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
~ Honore de Balzac
You cant get on my level. you gon need a space shuttle or a ladder. thats forever.
~ Lil Wayne
Man I swear Im so fly I wake up in the sky and wipe the cloud out my eye.
~ Lil Wayne
And I aint on HOVA level, Im over level.
~ Lil Wayne
Hopped up in my car and told my chauffeur to the top.
~ Lil Wayne
Im so high I can vomit on a comet.
~ Lil Wayne
So fly Im gonna take off when I leap. Bye.
~ Lil Wayne