Epiphany Quotes

• My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • God
  • Experience

• I just had a epiphany, I need to go to Tiffany's

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Needs
  • Materialistic
  • Tiffany's

• There's a slight problem with the majority counsel's epiphany as it has been passed down to the managers and then to you.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Problem
  • Managers
  • Epiphany

• I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Sense
  • Writer
  • Fascinating

• The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Experience
  • Notion

• For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Character
  • Mice
  • Flowering

• Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • History

• I had never done any sort of yoga before, and this epiphany was a little more esoteric. I walked into the yoga room and there was a voice from my soul that said out loud, This is it! I just knew. I just knew in that moment - I couldn't even straighten my legs. I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I couldn't put my legs up the wall in the most gentle, restorative yoga pose, and yet, I knew.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Yoga
  • Floor
  • Esoteric

• It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.

  

  Brady Udall
  • Reality
  • Change
  • Epiphany

• One of the earliest memories I have of feeling the power of film music was watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. That was a really clear epiphany for me, when I realized that each film has its own music, and that there was someone out there who wrote this very specific music for just this one film.

  

  Geoff Zanelli
  • Memories
  • Realized
  • Factories

• Change is an action not just an epiphany!

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Action
  • Epiphany

• And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Closest
  • Epiphany

• I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Kids
  • Song
  • Track

• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Artists

• My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Speakers
  • Epiphany
  • Visualization

• Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Sex
  • Divine
  • Epiphany

• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

  

  Story Musgrave
  • Pilot
  • NASA
  • Epiphany

• Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Becoming
  • Contradiction
  • Epiphany

• I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Cynical
  • Epiphany

• Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

  

  Casar Jacobson
  • Humility
  • Greatness
  • Accepting