What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can….

People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a differe….

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite..

Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers..

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creativ….

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut ….

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime founta….

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous..

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a….

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading..

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals ….

Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain o….

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life..

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men a….

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!.

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime..

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 cus….

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 expr….

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means..

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences..

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a mis….