Quotes About Having An Epiphany

#1. Shh," I interrupted him. "Hold on a second. I think I'm having an epiphany here.

Stephenie Meyer

#2. Discovering your calling is not an epiphany but a series of intentional decisions. It looks less like a giant leap and more like building a bridge.

Jeff Goins

#3. Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

Gene Wilder

#4. Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#5. Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

Ahmed Mostafa

#6. That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion.

Paul Theroux

#7. There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

J.K. Rowling

#8. I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.

Alice Lowe

#9. It's funny how some things are just words until one day, it happens to you, and it's like an epiphany.

Cheryl McIntyre

#10. I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

Erica Jong

#11. an epiphany: every lesson I learned fell into better management of one of three categories: my time, my attention, and my energy.

Chris Bailey

#12. And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Ned Vizzini

#13. In the moment, an epiphany feels like hell.

Anonymous

#14. Coincidence is just the hand of God who pushes you on the right track. That path will lead your steps towards an epiphany that will change your life. Don't believe in coincidences, believe in the righteousness of everything that happens to you.

Irina Serban

#15. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

William H Gass

#16. Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

E.L. Konigsburg

#17. Small things start us in new ways of thinking

V.S. Naipaul

#18. When things suck, time stands still, but when you have an epiphany and you're having the time of your life, it goes by in fast forward.

Brent Crawford

#19. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

#20. I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing their differently colored cursors moving around the screen, typing new words and making edits in real time. It was an epiphany.

Ian Lamont

#21. And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

Story Musgrave

#22. I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

Elizabeth Debicki

#23. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Rebecca Solnit

#24. I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Mary Meeker

#25. The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Phil Cousineau

#27. I realised that in my epiphany of Win El Over, I had grown a fucking vagina.

Becca Lee

#28. Truth is always a turning point.

Sheila Walsh

#29. I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

John Green

#30. A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

Lisa Wingate

#31. I hope I reach the point where epiphanies become so commonplace that I scarcely bother to register them: Oh look, another epiphany - as we acquire knowledge we become mired in the ignorance of the educated, delivered from the wisdom of innocence by a corrupted midwife. Now what's on telly?

Anonymous

#32. Not quite understanding how, he knew what he needed to do. He didn't get it. The feeling - the epiphany - was a strange one, foreign and familiar at the same time. But it felt ... right.

James Dashner

#33. And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.

Ahmed Mostafa

#34. What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Paul Feig