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Quotes About Awe

The Masters is poetry to me.
~ Jim Nantz
Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.
~ Linda Perry
Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
~ Ridley Scott
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
~ Carl Hiaasen
As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
~ Lance Henriksen
For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.
~ Flying Lotus
I remember the first time I saw Robert De Niro at a party. I didn't want to run over and shake his hand. I wanted to admire him from a distance. Later, I ended up making a movie with him, and that was fantastic.
~ Jason Statham
Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.
~ Peter Lerangis
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.
~ Peter Matthiessen
The silence that is part of all God-talk is not the silence of banality, indifference or ignorance but one that stands in awe of God. This does not necessitate an absolute 'silencing', whereby we give up speaking of God, but rather involves a recognition that our language concerning the divine remains silent in its speech.
~ Peter Rollins
As Marion writes, 'The silence suitable to God requires knowing how to remain silent, not out of agnosticism (the polite surname of impossible atheism) or out of humiliation, but simply out of respect.'50 Or as Gregory Palamas writes, '[The] super-essential nature of God is not a subject for speech or thought or even contemplation, for it is far removed from all that exists … [it is] incomprehensible and ineffable to all for ever.
~ Peter Rollins
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.
~ Peter Watts
Hayranl?k ma?lup olmu? bir k?skançl?kt?r. Yani k?skançl?k g?ptaya, g?pta hayranl??a yerini verir. Dibinde kin vard?r. Gitgide, hayranl???n zaafa u?rad??? anlarda bu kin ortaya ç?kar.
~ Peyami Safa
They were beautiful all right, but it was a huge, inhuman beauty...
~ Philip Reeve
Dis Papa, c'est quoi le ciel? Un espace sans ligne ni partage Une grande rêverie une nuite pleine de jour Qui n'a ni fin ni soif
~ Philippe Claudel
Sometimes, the stars come down and walk among us as people.
~ Pico Iyer
Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.
~ DeRay Mckesson
Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
~ Buzz Aldrin
For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.
~ Jim Crace
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
~ David Bowie
I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?
~ Michael Bolton
There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.
~ Gutzon Borglum
I'm in awe of Alexander Rusev.
~ William Regal
Watching David Beckham and Ronaldo scoring all these free-kicks, I was in awe.
~ Mason Mount