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Purely by hard work, one can become an artist. -- Robert Fripp
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. -- Francois Truffaut
Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history. -- Albert Camus
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. -- Nicholas Kristof
In a city [world] as dirty as this, You gather up, save, and show me Purely beautiful things. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. -- Dave Barry
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Purely the idea of writing a lot of books doesn't make you a great writer, but it might be that the process of doing a lot of writing will make you a much better writer. -- Walter Mosley
I don't approach films purely in context of genre. -- Roger Deakins
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. -- O. Henry
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. -- George Balanchine
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view. -- Wassily Kandinsky
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse. -- Justin Trudeau
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. -- Jacques Lacan
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. -- Christopher Lasch
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. -- Christopher Columbus
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. -- Jean Giraudoux
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision. -- Laura Marling
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background. -- J. Michael Straczynski
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. -- Boz Scaggs
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. -- Helena Blavatsky
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. -- Stephen Hawking
We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. -- Yasser Arafat
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me. -- John Cleese
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller
I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste. -- Randeep Hooda
Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially. -- Jerry Greenfield
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men. -- George Ripley
Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. -- Charles Vest
Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility. -- Yehuda Berg
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives. -- Zig Ziglar
Nobody acts purely selfishly. -- Rose McIver
... inventions and purely human institutions. -- Jean Meslier
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial. -- Oscar Wilde
Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A purely materialistic art would be... -- Haile Selassie
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When I read, I'm purely a reader -- Anne Tyler
A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity. -- William James
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons. -- Anita Brookner
Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. -- Jimmy Buffett
Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young. -- Linda Ellerbee
Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational. -- Hedi Slimane
What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual. -- Walter Benjamin
The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination. -- John Ambrose Fleming
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. -- Bill Medley
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. -- Hans Kung
We are born by accident into a purely random universe. -- Robert Silverberg
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. -- Margaret Fuller
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation. -- Wayne Dyer
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest. -- Boris Johnson
There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns. -- Calvin Coolidge
I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical. -- Rod Stewart
Inspiration is not purely passive, but does favor the prepared mind. -- Scott Barry Kaufman
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. -- Kenzo Tange
What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star? -- Lou Reed
As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more. -- Amy Chua
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. -- Jasper Fforde
I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background. -- Arfa Karim
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline. -- Steve Erickson
I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view. -- Jessica Lange
The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few. -- Margot Asquith
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. -- Lucian Freud
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. -- Richard Reti
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. -- Bernard Bolzano
To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival. -- Stephen Richards
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. -- Albert Einstein
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. -- Robert Henri
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. -- Max Weber
Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me. -- Helen Fielding
There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. -- Kevin Bacon
Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. -- Walter Benjamin
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it. -- Lisa Lutz
Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion. -- Albert Einstein
The greatest danger of traditional education is that learning may remain purely verbal. -- Mirra Komarovsky
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. -- Thomas de Quincey
We love purely when we release other people to be who they are. -- Marianne Williamson
Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. -- Lady Gaga
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. -- Howard Fineman
I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. -- Jamie Oliver
Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense. -- Linus Torvalds
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. -- Wole Soyinka
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. -- Eberhard Weber
The state of no being, knows neither pleasure nor pain. It is purely divine. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. -- Philip Yancey
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. -- Allan Bloom
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. -- Alan Turing
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. -- Michael Korda
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity -- Christopher Nolan
It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil. -- Michael Chiklis
Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content. -- Rudolf Steiner
I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining. -- Zach Condon
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. -- Peter Bart
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market. -- Ai Weiwei
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. -- Ravi Zacharias
All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us. -- Alfred Stieglitz
We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness -- Jimmy Carter
If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists. -- Martin Freeman
I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation -- Shah Rukh Khan
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. -- Jacques Ellul
My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. -- Fritz Sauckel
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms. -- Adam Michnik
The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others. -- Paulo Coelho
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films. -- Mary Harron
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. -- Tom Robbins
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. -- Mel Torme
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs. -- Frederick Seitz
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon. -- Thomas Moore
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. -- Richard Branson

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