All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

There's nothing purer than Janette Carter with an autoharp.

With 'The Conjuring,' I really wanted to create classical cinema-style film-making, pure cinema as it were.

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.

Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

Using a massive panel of pure sapphire for the front of a phone would be a little bit stupid.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

When I'm doing drag, I get to just be a pure channel for it.

I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

I prefer to have the music as pure as possible. I don't want to say, 'Oh yes, this is good. This is not good; I have to do it again.' I don't want to do it again. I want to do it once. It's no good, I do another one.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.