Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Base

There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.

Benjamin Disraeli

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Alain de Botton

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

Denis Diderot

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Denis Diderot

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Aldous Huxley

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Donna Tartt

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

C. S. Lewis

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Eddie Vedder

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

Edgar Allan Poe

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

Aeschylus

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

Abraham Cowley

To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.

Steve Evans

Paul has been in fine form at Chester and he's delighted to be back with us.

Russell Johnson

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

Catullus

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

Oscar Wilde

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

Barbra Streisand

Jim, I'm delighted to be here as your wife. I'm very proud of you.

Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Charles R. Swindoll

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

Ian McGeechan

Lawrence is one of the giants of the English and world game and we are, of course, delighted that he is remaining with us for a further 2 years.

Chris Kelly

I was honored and delighted by his support and the support of his wife,