Looms Large Quotes

#1. To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Henry James

#2. I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Garry Shandling

#3. Giving our children rest means being their safe harbor, their place to retreat when life hurts and the world looms large and people disappoint and mistakes are made. Becoming that safe harbor means being free ~ freely available, freely offered, freely welcoming.

L.R. Knost

#4. Certainly the attrition rate of Hollywood couples looms large.

Brad Pitt

#5. I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

Dave Eggers

#6. The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Alyce Cornyn-Selby

#8. Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

Nick Cave

#9. Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Booger looms large in my legend, so I want to get something clear before we go any further: I hated him on sight.

Curtis Armstrong

#11. Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of his records with me.

Ron Sexsmith

#12. By the time we arrived the film had already started, and there was only standing room left behind the screen, where everything was in reverse and everyone was left-handed.

Dai Sijie

#13. My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#14. That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#15. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

Yann Martel

#16. The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Colin Powell

#17. As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!

Jessica Alba

#18. I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with their tariff, get the money there is in it.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#19. You only get one life. There are no do-overs, so make the most of the life you have.

Lilly Barrett

#20. I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

#22. The other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts, and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.

Chris Squire

#23. Physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

Nancy Mairs

#24. While the scale of our library is certainly attractive to our users, equally important is the quality of the content we provide and our state-of-the-art processing operation that vets every single piece of content that's submitted to ensure only the most suitable content is included.

Jon Oringer

#25. The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.

Joe Bradley

#26. Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running for office can have, bigger than being gay, unmarried, thrice married, or black.

Frans De Waal

#27. Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

Joe Bradley

#28. Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision ...

Narendra Modi

#29. three men can keep a secret, but only if two of them are dead.

Joanne Fluke

#30. Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Grace Paley