#sheer

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#clever #funny #man #must #sexiness

It's through sheer will that I can sing. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#i can #sheer #sing #through #will

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#actually #belief #believe #between #books

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#exceptions #few #sheer #through #underdog

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. ↗

— E. B. White

#education #english #getting #judgment #like

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#character #comes #comic #even #failure

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#dissolves #information #networks #nothing #remains

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#awoke #book #boredom #dreamed #dull

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had. ↗

— Betty Hill

#feelings #get #had #long #mixed

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#enjoyment #entertaining #entertaining people #families #just