Sublime Minds Quotes

#1. Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#2. When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#3. Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Guy De Maupassant

#4. Afterward it was hard to be sure exactly when the sublime light had dazzled their minds and driven them mad, since they went insane with such calm and dignity that nobody noticed.

Frances Hardinge

#5. People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.

Bodhidharma

#6. The spirit will unfold itself in true perfection and splendor, when your heart has banished your selfishness.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

John Madden

#8. The best director is the one you don't see.

Billy Wilder

#9. Produce in me those principles and dispositions that make Thy service perfect freedom.

Anonymous

#10. At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

Rene Thom

#11. This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

Sharon E. Rainey

#12. Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Emil Cioran

#13. The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.

Jane Leavy

#15. D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning.

Alexandre Dumas

#16. I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

Mason Cooley

#17. They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.

R.S. Thomas