Top 902 Sheer Quotes & Sayings

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

I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In for example Birmingham, England where a lot of these guys came from, where one of these plots was hatched, it's up to 30% of the population. Maybe that's the problem?

I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

At the end of the day, life is a gamble, isn't it? A lot of it is sheer luck.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Cars bring me sheer joy.

Do what you do for the sheer joy of it, Do what you choose,not what someone else chooses for you.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.

If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love for the sheer joy of it, if you meditate for the sheer delight of it and you don`t have any result in mind - you are not goal-oriented - then there comes an emptiness which is positive. You start feeling full. You start feeling, for the first time, that you ARE. Being is felt, and that being is tremendously beautiful, blissful. It is SATCHITANANDA: it is existence, it is consciousness, it is bliss.

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.

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

When you're a kid football is, and should be, sheer enjoyment.

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

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

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

The sheer genius of talk radio and Townhall.com is that the environment is so interactive.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

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

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

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

People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that natural selection is the very opposite of sheer chance. Natural selection is a non-random process.

Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

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

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

I was determined to make it big on sheer merit.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

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

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.