Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Diamond

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

Nikolai Gogol

...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

Montgomery Clift

James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,

Marilynne Robinson

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

Paulo Freire

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Mariska Hargitay

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

Meghan O'Rourke

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

Michael Behe

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

Neale Donald Walsch

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

James Russell Lowell

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Leslie Stephen

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Malcolm Gladwell

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

George Gilder

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

Luc de Clapiers

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Louis Pasteur

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.

M. Scott Peck

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Steve Stoute

What I want to do is basically tell my generation's story about how music and culture helped affect a generation, and a generation that's so profound, that it went on to elect the first African-American president.

Ray Manzarek

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity

Ray Kurzweil

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

Raoul Vaneigem

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Tana French

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

Tad Williams

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?

Sylvia Plath

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Soren Kierkegaard

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

Woody Allen

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

William Wordsworth

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

William J. Clinton

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.