Awe Quotes

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

I was in awe every time I walked on to the field.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.