Pure Quotes

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.