Feats Quotes

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess.

Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it.

In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy.

The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path;

but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Triumphs without difficulties are empty.

Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it.

With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues.

But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone.

The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film.

But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

I will form good habits and become their slave.

And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.