I came from the educated middle class but I identified with the working classes. Those were the people I looked up to. The lads whose fathers worked on the docks or in shipping yards or were shopkeepers. I knew that I wasn`t part of that world, but I was intrigued by it. They had a different way of communicating. People who delight in conversation are often using that as a means to not say what is on their minds. When I became interested in theater, the work I admired was being done by working-class writers. It was often about the inarticulate. I later saw that same thing in Robert De Niro`s early work - it was the most sublime struggle of a man trying to express himself. There was such poetry in that for me.
- Daniel Day-LewisI don`t particularly like westerns as a genre, but I do love certain westerns. High Noon (1952) means a lot to me - I love the purity and the honesty, I love Gary Cooper in that film, the idea of the last man standing. I do not like John Wayne: I find it hard to watch him. I just never took to him. And I don`t like James Stewart as a cowboy. I love him, but just not as a cowboy; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is one of my favorite films. I love Frank Capra. I love Preston Sturges. But we`re talking about westerns. ... I have always admired Clint Eastwood`s westerns. The spaghetti westerns were a great discovery. And Pale Rider (1985). As a child, the John Ford film _Cheyenne Autumn_ made a big impression on me. And _Five Easy Pieces_. It`s not really a western, but it is about the possibilities that can be found in the West. Jack Nicholson is sublime in that film, just sublime. It`s the most stultifying portrait of middle-class life. You want to flee from that world and head anywhere less civilized. Which is, of course, the appeal of the West: It`s not tamed yet.
- Daniel Day-Lewis"Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don`t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public`s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in." (From her book "Feel This Book," co-written with Ben Stiller)
- Janeane GarofaloI`m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
- Keanu ReevesI don`t think, there`s no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven`t found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
- Téa LeoniChocolate`s okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it`s sublime. I`d like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
- Kathy MatteaI kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
- Pope John Paul III decided that it was not wisdom that enabled (poets) to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- SocratesBe not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonOh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
- Boris PasternakThere`s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there`s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.
- Lion FeuchtwangerIf I were assigned poems I suppose I`d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
- Thomas LynchNeither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
- Abdul QayyumSports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
- Al CarterThe realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
- Alan AdlerBeauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
- Alex GarwoodA sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
- Alexander SilbigerPeace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
- Alfredo AlonsoPeople do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
- Ali AbduSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
- Ali FabbroHe, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
- Alice RossiGrant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
- Andrea WrightThe elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
- Andrew McKeePeace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
- Angie BrownDuty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
- Robert E. LeeCrude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth
- Eric HofferSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price
- Jean Baudrillard