Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
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.
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.
The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.
I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.
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.
What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
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.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.
... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
