Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Brandt

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future.

Bertrand Russell

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Augusten Burroughs

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

Ben Kingsley

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Albert Schweitzer

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Laura Linney

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Albert Einstein

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful ...

Adam Hamilton

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

Otto Hahn

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Ram Dass

Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Dave Sim

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

David Mamet

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Clay Walker

I just wanna live until I die.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

Albert Bandura

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

Albert Camus

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

Annie Besant

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

D. H. Lawrence

From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.

Albert Schweitzer

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

E. O. Wilson

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Doris Lessing

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Daniel Craig

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

Dana Spiotta

You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than going at it all frontally. But you can't conjure it in an intellectual way; it has to come out of another engagement, a more intuitive engagement. Revision is where the intellectual, analytical work happens. At least for me.

Dario Fo

With comedy I can search for the profound.

David Limbaugh

Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

Andre Gide

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Anais Nin

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Anne Frank

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Andrew Weil

Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.

Janna Levin

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.