Intangible Quotes

#1. The contrast between earthly and spiritual is not a contrast between the tangible and the intangible; it is between the transitory and the eternal. Earthly is temporary, spiritual is everlasting. [Ed Welch, Running Scared, 127]

Edward T. Welch

#2. As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Diane Frolov

#3. Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer

Stella Coulson

#4. As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

Chris Evans

#5. Her hands reach out for intangible dreams as dust motes dance in the spectrum of light across one corner of the room.

Tracey-anne McCartney

#6. In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.

Evgeny Morozov

#7. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. I do not see emotions and feelings as the intangible and vaporous qualities that many presume them to be. Their subject matter is concrete, and they can be related to specific systems in body and brain, no less so than vision or speech.

Antonio R. Damasio

#9. She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.

Simon Van Booy

#10. I am a mystic. I believe in hearing the inaudible and touching the intangible and seeing the invisible.

Adam Clayton Powell III

#11. A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.

Danielle Valenilla

#12. What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible.

Austin Wright

#13. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

Mark Ryan

#15. It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible connection--even one so strange as this--will outweigh all the details and triviality of the world that drive people apart.

Matthew Flaming

#16. A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that is fluid and intangible.

Henry Miller

#17. It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

Frank O'Hara

#18. I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.

Craig Lancaster

#19. It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.

Milan Kundera

#20. At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

Sergio Chejfec

#21. My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.

Edie Campbell

#22. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Timothy Leary

#23. The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

Che Guevara

#24. I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

Masiela Lusha

#25. Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

Aron Nimzowitsch

#26. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#27. A mind that is very selective to forms ... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#28. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Brandon Boyd

#29. How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions

Miguel Syjuco

#30. The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

Paul Cezanne

#31. Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

Willy Ley

#32. Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody's on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

Andrew Sharp

#33. There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#34. When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Jamie Foxx

#35. I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.

CeeLo Green

#36. Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.

Robert Fulghum

#37. According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.

Gary Zukav

#38. Trust is an intangible thing, a token of faith that you extend to another. And the irony of it is that it will never solidify into anything true or strong unless you allow yourself the vulnerability of outstretching your hand, with the hope that the other will reciprocate the gesture.

Sofia Malamas

#39. There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

Bill James

#40. He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.

R.C. Sproul

#41. Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you,
to be around you, to be influenced by you.

Roger Dawson

#42. Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

Honor Harger

#43. What was the one moment we lost our way? Or was it a series of moments that snowballed into something larger, something intangible, something careeining forward with too much acceleration for us to stop it now?

Allison Winn Scotch

#44. An accompanied, busy man's goodness is complimented and is absorbed in the compliment but a solitary man's goodness compliments nature and gets accompanied with all the nature's intangible secrets.

Ashutosh Gupta

#45. Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.

Colm Feore

#46. What lies inside a cage of flames? The truth, the heart, but burned up before you can see it. Only traces remain in the ashes, a pattern you guess at or invent, an intangible thing that might leave a mark, but could just as easily blow away.

Rene Steinke

#47. Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

Joseph Joubert

#48. Feelings are intangible," he said. "You can't see them, can't touch them. You can hurt and no one would know. But physical pain is real. You can see blood and broken bones. It's simple in a way feelings are not, and cutting makes the abstract pain of feelings substantial.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#49. There IS POWER IN PRAYER! It is the cheapest intangible asset we have and do not use enough of.

Deborah Dolen

#50. It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

Alan Zweibel

#51. Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#52. Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

Mira Bartok

#53. Art expresses complex intangible feelings we can't explain in any other way. Art is everywhere, art is love; love is God; God is art. They're one and the same.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#54. That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.'

Dan Brown

#55. Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities ...

H. P. Blavatsky

#56. A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

Jimmie Davis

#57. But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#58. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

Neil Gaiman

#59. One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

Ernest Shackleton

#60. The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you with how best to express your ideas so that it is as clear as possible to the performer.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

#61. It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose between seemingly esoteric, intangible ideals and getting goodies or good vibes right now. You have character when you most often choose ideals.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#62. When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

Richard Meier

#63. Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

William Jennings Bryan

#64. Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

Elie Wiesel

#65. When you actually encounter that which you have always dreamed of, the details aren't as important as the fact that it's real, that it is dense and limited, without that intangible tendency to shape-shift that dreams have.

Pablo De Santis

#66. Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.

Jo Walton

#67. A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

John Marshall

#68. I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, "Man is the measure", and I went, and after many visits I found an opening.

E. M. Forster

#69. Material things
are produced by men
and measured in dollars.
Intangible things
are produced by souls
and measured in love.

J.Z. Bingham

#70. So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea of elusive and intangible things. That could be psychological. It could be perceptual. It could be just the way your ears help you just navigate around.

DJ Spooky

#71. One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

Benton MacKaye

#72. The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Bruce Lee

#73. Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Meg Tilly

#74. One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.

Jennifer Ball

#75. Part of what drives us to explore and discover is the intangible: expanding our horizons, feeding our curiosity, finding all those unexpected things, and trying to answer those profound questions discussed in previous chapters, like how did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?

Nancy Atkinson

#76. What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

Robert Herjavec

#77. Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

William Bailey

#78. What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.

Iyanla Vanzant

#79. She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.

L.M. Montgomery

#80. The competitive advantage of the twenty-first century is increasingly derived from hard-to-copy intangible assets such as company culture and leadership effectiveness.

Scott Keller

#81. The world of Katherine Kavanagh is very clear, very black and white. Not the intangible, mysterious, vague hues of gray that color my world. Welcome to my world.

E.L. James

#82. But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.

Krist Novoselic

#83. I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Tommy Lee Jones

#84. No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.

Napoleon Hill

#85. With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#86. Of all the thousands of gifts I received in my eight years in the White House, few were more welcome and needed than these twelve intangible gifts of discernment, peace, compassion, faith, fellowship, vision, forgiveness, grace, wisdom, love, joy and courage.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#87. It's crazy to look at [my baby], flesh and blood, and know that [my husband] and I were able to build something real and solid out of a material as blurry and intangible as love.

Jodi Picoult

#88. We hear inconceivable, but cannot see the intangible.

Akiane Kramarik

#89. Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Francis Thompson

#90. Action is the means through which the intangible becomes tangible.

Eleesha

#91. Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.

Timothy Mason

#92. Backstory is like a flavour you can't quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it's there and it enhances the flavour, but it's intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

Sandy Vaile

#93. Every system of control depends for its survival on the tangible and intangible benefits that are provided to those who are responsible for the system's maintenance and administration.

Michelle Alexander

#94. Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

Anagarika Govinda

#95. Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.

Vera Nazarian

#96. They can't hurt us, you big babies! We're intangible! Why are you guys acting like you just died yesterday?

Brian K. Vaughan

#97. The petulance that relatives show towards each other is in truth directed against that intangible Causality which has shaped the situation no less for the offenders than the offended, but is too elusive to be discerned and cornered by poor humanity in irritated mood.

Thomas Hardy

#98. Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are invisible, intangible, inaudible and otherwise undetectable by any natural means.

Greta Christina

#99. The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Winston S. Churchill

#100. When it comes to your talent, translate the intangible into the tangible.

Don Maruska