Quotes About Sheer

The 'Donny and Marie' show is incredible. It's not a musical, but for sheer entertainment value and energy, it's a real 10 out of 10.

I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

There was the sheer Antarctic landscape, and the mind moving across it like a brush on canvas, until the brush was laid aside, and the snow buried it.

she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!

Couldn't you give me one small smoke? I'm dying to smoke. And I haven't a cent to buy them. "Blessed are the poor. … Poverty's no crime," as they say—but sheer indecency.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

In principle the most vulnerable, but he wasn't worried. Sheer rage would overcome any theoretical tactical disadvantage.

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 power to move, its rhetorical force?

I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.

Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.

I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love

I wanted nights to memorize this painting. I wanted at once to listen at the portals of scholars who could tell me what it was about, for I couldn't possibly decipher it! I need knowledge for this. And more than anything, its sheer beauty spoke to my soul.

Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly.

Who says I'm dying? Did you see the amount of sheer effort it took me to escape the land of the dead? I'm not going back in now!

As at all crises of his strange life, sheer cosmic curiosity triumphed over everything else.

great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.

What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such—of what lies beyond the human and the made—and thereby stimulates and deepens our sense of the sheer spread and fullness of reality, inanimate as well as pulsing, that surrounds us all.

Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome. It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.

Through a determined program of sheer dumb luck and liberal applications of THC I had managed never to impregnate a woman before