Quotes of: Sheer Keyword

Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.

Soulmates, By Chance

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do.

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

Emanuel Ax

I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily so that I can then do nothing - which I do anxiously, distractedly, wondering al...

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Spike Jonze

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Suzy Parker

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

Kenneth Tynan

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

David Chipperfield

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

Carter Burwell

Cars bring me sheer joy.

Evan Spiegel

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

Jilly Cooper

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Brad Delson

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

Carroll O'Connor

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. ...

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing...

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

Johnny Weissmuller

Sometimes out of sheer perversity reality conforms to my wishes.

Marty Rubin

Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes.

Marty Rubin

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

Harvey Fierstein

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Yo-Yo Ma

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The Picture of Dorian Gray