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Quotes About Sheer

Now, conceding that Prosper was at least 40 percent full of the stuff that makes roses grow, that still left quite a lot of sheer unparalleled genius.
~ K.J. Parker
By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.
~ Lynn Nottage
The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.
~ Mary Berry
There's a moment of sheer terror when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park
~ Bret Easton Ellis
There's a moment of sheer panic when I discover Paul's apartment overlooks the park
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I finally understood why he was called Mad Rogan. It wasn't because he was insane. It was because he drove you nuts with sheer frustration.
~ Ilona Andrews
Falling in love isn't about expectations or an outcome.It is about the sheer, weightless, joyous terror of falling into the universal embrace.
~ Joyce Wycoff
We take a self-forgetful pleasure in the sheer alien pointless independent existence of animals, birds, stones and trees.
~ Iris Murdoch
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.
~ George Crabbe
To tell the truth, I was simply going to take on the external mannerisms of my acquaintance," admitted Paul frankly. "That was a great mistake," Tortsov replied. "At that point you went over to sheer imitation, which has nothing to do with creativeness
~ Konstantin Stanislavsky
Before taking an analytical approach, you should immerse yourself in the sheer visceral intensity of these performances, which capture the ethos of
~ Ted Gioia
In the sheer, shimmering improbability of the moment, it seemed to Lazlo that his dream had tired of waiting and had simply… come to find him. There
~ Laini Taylor
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Obama and his staff's sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.
~ Mike Gallagher
I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learnt that you have to be determined. It's not violence or aggression. It's sheer determination.
~ Anthony Joshua
He was most comfortable with sheer physical collision. When it all came down to it, that, even more than his tactical expertise, was what had made Jade famous; it was what he did best.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
They took council. On that raw tablestone the flames of their balefire swirled and circled and they studied the arrant blackness under them where it fell away like the sheer cloven face of the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Low gray cloud pressing down on the sheer gray city. A glimpse of new buildings, through the scaled-down limo's tinted, lace-curtained windows.
~ William Gibson
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
~ Chris Ware
We should credit [the sky] for what it is: for sheer size and perfection of function, it is far and away the grandest product of collaboration in all of nature.
~ Lewis Thomas
I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
~ Iggy Azalea
As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
~ Evan Osnos
There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.
~ Hugh Laurie