"The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist."

--- August Kleinzahler

"Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural."

--- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

"As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false."

--- Victor Hugo

"For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value."

--- Carol S. Dweck

"Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly."

--- Thomas Frank

"All life is profoundly dependent on communication."

--- Cheryl Heller

"I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony."

--- Susan Sontag

"I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very proud that I was a part of it."

--- Stephen Lang

"It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head."

--- Criss Jami

"But now my problems had been set loose. They could be anywhere at any time and I was just like everyone else I knew: almost positive that there was something profoundly and undiagnosably wrong with me."

--- Sloane Crosley

"The making of music is profoundly affected by the market."

--- David Byrne

"The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure."

--- Scott Stapp

"I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture."

--- David O. Russell

"We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them."

--- Dion Fortune

"It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves"

--- Edward Bond

"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."

--- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true."

--- Elizabeth Kim

"The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved."

--- Rick Joyner

"I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in."

--- Emma Stone

"To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But to suddenly say the answer is God - it's that that seems to me to close off the discussion."

--- Richard Dawkins

"In my reading and in my studies I always tried to achieve a harmony between faith, reason, and the heart. These are not separate areas, but are profoundly interconnected, each giving life to the other."

--- Pope John Paul II

"It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it."

--- Frank Gehry

"I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well."

--- PJ Harvey

"American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular."

--- George Packer

"Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect."

--- Hubert H. Humphrey

"He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew."

--- Michael Chabon

"I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs."

--- James Thurber

"God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people."

--- Marianne Williamson

"I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important."

--- Marian Wright Edelman

"To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone."

--- Margot Asquith

"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."

--- Jeremiah Denton