Fathom Quotations

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence.

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

Music fathoms the sky.

Let's say she's a 15-year-old boy playing in men's tournaments, in the Amateur Public Links and winning these matches, or coming within strokes of missing the cut in a PGA tournament. When I was 17 I couldn't come close to making a cut, and at the time I was doing very well in junior golf. I just can't believe any 15 year old, especially a young girl, could be doing what she's doing. I can't fathom it. It's just amazing.

She hates it. She did it all her life and she had to learn how to sew to survive. She couldn't fathom I want to sew because it is my dream.

She is the best to ever walk the halls or ever will as far as stats go. I find it hard to fathom all that she did. It is like a dream world. For her to be placed on some of the state and national records is remarkable for a girl from a small school.

Nobody has the capacity to fathom fully how the effects of the tragedy of Sept. 11 will play out in our economy,

I can't fathom the destruction. It's the scope of the loss. It's knowing how long it's going to take to get things back to normal. There are parts of New Orleans that will never be the same.

I can't fathom having this many wins. But today was definitely a team effort.

I can't even fathom what they're going to do when oil hits $100 a barrel. It's a tough business to be in right now.

I can't even fathom what I caused in their lives. I've thought about it for years, for decades ... but I will never fully fathom it. But I will never let myself forget it, either. And I pray for them every night.

I can't even fathom that number - just being able to play baseball and understand how hard it is to win one game. To win 300-plus games is remarkable. To win 200-plus games is remarkable. That's a big number.

I can't even fathom how they must feel,

I can't even fathom anyone letting it happen. People get injured anyway in this sport without this. It just frightens me.

If Tuesday works out, we'll come back Wednesday. If we don't make any progress and people decide to backtrack on ideas, there won't be a Wednesday meeting. I don't even want to fathom to think (what would happen) if it falls through.

It is hard to fathom what it is like to lose five children at one time, two nieces and her father.

It is difficult for the defense to fathom why the Congressman would be eager to discuss these matters on Oprah, yet he would refuse to swear, in a capital case, that the same information is actually true.

Today was about how much courage Matt had to go out there. I couldn't even fathom what he had to go through.

When I first started, I never thought I could ever bench 500 pounds. Then, when I got that, I never dreamed I could do 600. And 700? I couldn't even fathom the possibility of doing that.

You have to be good, lucky and on a good team. ... I can't fathom having 18 wins. It's the same thing I felt when I had 15 wins.

We watched tape of them and we talked about their quickness and ability to get in the passing lanes. Until you get out there it's hard to fathom how effective they are. They are a pesky team and they're going to be one of those teams that will always be hard to play.

Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it

This will take the key programs at HUD and cut them from last year's level, ... I can't even fathom the logic of that.

probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out.

The more everyone reads about this, the more outraged and disgusted they are. You can't fathom people would do this.

That's just crazy. I can't even fathom that. Wow.

This is something that needs to be tried in the courts. This is a huge tragedy. The family continues to suffer, and they'll never recover. I couldn't even fathom the pain that they feel through this whole thing.

The way that trafficking is stopped is just ordinary people become aware of it and they see something awry and then call in a tip, ... And until people can fathom that their next-door neighbor might have a slave in their house, they're not going to see the signs and think to call the police.

They say you really don't understand what winning is. You really don't appreciate what winning is until you've had your share of losing. I think the opposite is also true. I think you can't quite fathom how much losing hurts when you have had as many chances to win, that we had, over the years.

They say you don't appreciate winning until you've had your share of losing. But you don't fathom how much losing hurts after all the winning you've done over the years. We played almost well enough to win. We played heroically. But Duke was too good for us to beat tonight.

All of our lives, the very fabric of our society, are so intertwined with science and technology that you can't even begin to fathom where we're going in the 21st century without an understanding of science.

The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level.

It's a sad day in the Big Sky. Mick's an icon there. He's a great guy and I wish him the best. I can't even fathom the commitment that he's given to that institution.

It was such a boost for everyone on the Champions Tour. It was like, 'You guys are walking miracles.' We had a lot of help, no doubt about it. That's the kind of stuff that doesn't happen. It's way beyond what you can fathom happening.

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

It's hard to fathom what it's like to lose five children, two nieces and a father in one shot. It seems like a burden too big to bear.

It's hard to fathom how big the experience was,

The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.

It's hard for me to fathom all the changes in technology that have occurred since I started in the industry.

It's difficult to fathom not having that stadium sold out, ... I think our dilemma is what to do with overflow. One million dollars (to hurricane relief) is very achievable. We can do that.

It was kind of like unspoken that we had to win. In (Coughlin's) mind, he couldn't fathom us losing.

It was just an amazing day. One simply can't fathom the kind of batting seen today.

That's crazy, man. I can't even fathom that. That's crazy.

I'm swallowing hard. I'm really trying to fathom how in this day in age it can even be said. This is not something we're going to take lightly. It's a very emotional subject. It's a blow below the belt. I know it deeply affected Felipe. I'm disappointed and disheartened we have to react to it. We stand by our manager and stand by his comments and feelings on the subject.

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me

I can barely fathom it. I just wanted to contribute, try to make some blocks. Offensively I wanted to open up some holes. I could have had another catch. I could have had another tackle on special teams. I'm glad it was enough.

I cannot grasp the difference between killing people with drones or rifles and knives. The objective in war is to kill the enemy before he kills you. I can't fathom the almost religious zeal with which the use of drones is being opposed.

I cannot fathom why any employee would want to do that.

I couldn't fathom little babies without water or food all that time. I find it impossible for my mind to accept men crying and fighting for their lives in front of everyone. Please search your hearts and know that what you do now is for human beings to stay alive.

I couldn't even fathom to judge who it's going to help or not help. I think every coach is doing the same thing, just trying to put together a plan that allows their group to hit the ice, whenever they start, on all cylinders.

I am absolutely floored. Russ was kind and gentle to everybody.... I can't fathom what in the world happened.

I am prepared to sit down and listen to their concerns. Where that leads at this point I wouldn't want to fathom a guess,

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.