Quotes About Gravitas

#1. My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas.

Ben Mendelsohn

#2. Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

Ariel Dorfman

#3. There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

Liam Neeson

#4. I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.

Oscar Hijuelos

#5. These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.

Tony Hoagland

#6. The gravitas in a leader is like clarity in diamond.

Pearl Zhu

#7. It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

Barry Eisler

#8. looked at the better-informed faces passing with that Westminster Expression, the Estate Expression: a certain gravitas, a pinch of visible intelligence, alert attention, and - above all - irritation. Westminster found all that was not Westminster - and much that was - deeply irritating. Here

A. L. Kennedy

#9. I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.

Mariella Frostrup

#10. Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.

Mariella Frostrup

#12. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren't needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter.

Lena Dunham

#13. I don't need a tie for gravitas.

Iain M. Banks

#14. Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?

Greg Behrendt

#15. For the Romans, gravitas denoted a man's metaphorical "heaviness" - a strength of purpose, sense of authority, depth of character, and commitment to the task at hand that together formed a structure sturdy enough to bear the weight of his significant responsibilities

Brett McKay

#16. Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.

Ryan Hurst

#17. Dr. Timothy Shutt, in the context of the Illiad, explains the larger meaning of armor in Greek culture. It is the visible reputation of the warrior -- his gravitas, his wake. This allows another warrior to go out and win victories in the armor of Achilles.

Timothy B. Shutt

#18. Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

Joy Behar

#19. Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Stephen Rodrick

#20. I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.

Benjamin Bratt

#21. When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

Joe Anderson

#22. The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.

Rob Sheffield

#23. There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#24. Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

Gail Carriger

#25. Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

Stephen Colbert

#26. After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

Jack Coleman

#27. You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

David Levithan

#28. Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

Sam Rayburn

#29. The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecraft, of immutable History.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#30. Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent noise or signal.

Nate Silver

#31. Our worship as believers cannot be accepted we honor others

Sunday Adelaja

#32. After my older sister Pauline died, Faith dried my tears night after night as I cried myself to sleep. Faith persisted, and it woke me up every morning after, forcing me to leave the security of my down-covered cave and feel the warmth of the sun on my face. Faith never gives up.

Terri Enghofer

#33. Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

Edward Young

#34. Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Nigel Short

#35. Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Baruch Spinoza

#36. I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

John Irving

#37. 'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'

Tobin Bell

#38. Language is an art, like brewing or baking ... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Charles Darwin

#39. Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.

Geraldine Brooks