Sheer Quotes

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color helps me look flawless even when faced with that unforgiving Jumbotron!

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

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

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

Onstage, I'm still wearing my fabulous, sheer dresses because I'm not that big.

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

The more you give, the more you will get. Then life will become a sheer dance of love.

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.