A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project. I struggle a bit with such a big series that's going all the time.
Charles Van Doren: [to Enright after his first fixed show] "So pure it floats", hmm?
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
If everyone sweeps their own doorstep, their own neighbourhoods, the world will be a clean, pure and healthy place for life to prosper.
If you’re purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn’t illuminate.
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
The pure products of America go crazy... ...[] No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car
I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them work. Their take on the world interests me. It's not unified.
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.
...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten fingers on which men learned to count, that is, to carry...
There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the black...
There had never been a Class A1 event; it had always been a purely theoretical designation. Until now.
She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.
