Sheer Quotes

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

She goes to Frederick's of Hollywood at the mall and purchases an explicit lingerie outfit so sheer that you could read an appliance warranty through it in an unlit closet.

Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us. And this, in turn, will enable our obedience far more than sheer grunt effort.

Stay with me. I’ll show you things that’ll make you laugh in delight, scream in passion, cry for the sheer joy of it.

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

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

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

Mass becomes immobile; it cannot manoeuvre and therefore cannot win victories, it can only crush by sheer weight.

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.