Marvellous Quotes - Page 6

• It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Fire, Clouds

  Quoted in Irma A Richter (ed) Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1977).

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• When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

  David Hockney

  Freedom, Young, Exciting

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• I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

  John Lydon

  Family, Might, Born

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• The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Real, People, Perfect

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• I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

  Roald Dahl

  Advice, Twits, Valuable

  "Fictional character: Mr. F.F. "Foxy" Fox". "Fantastic Mr. Fox", 2009.

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• It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Fun, Photographer, Marvelous

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• Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

  Henry Cabot Lodge

  Fall, Civilization, Land

  Speech Against the League of Nations, patriotpost.us. August 12, 1919.

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• The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

  Terry Pratchett

  Snakes, Twists, Enchantment

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.179, Random House

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Frankenstein's Monster, Shelley

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Would Be, Paint, Ifs

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• He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Player, People

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• Don't gobblefunk around with words.

  Roald Dahl

  Funny, Twits

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.28, Penguin

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• We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, World, Splendor

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

  Antonio Machado

  Success, Sweet, Heart

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Snakes, Twists

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• I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous.

  Paz Vega

  Vegas, Marvelous, Cruz

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• Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

  Richie Benaud

  Way, Cricket, Australian

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• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Animal, Opportunity

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• I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Giving, Stupidity, Body

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1919-1920”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Faith, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nobody can beat the Marvellous one!

  Marc Mero

  Beats

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• Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that.

  Stuart Adamson

  Sometimes, Given, Humans

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• It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

  Marya Mannes

  Women, Knows, Ifs

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• The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused grouping together the lofty deeds of a great number of heroes, whose names they have not even deigned to preserve, and investing the single personage of Hercules with them. In our own time the public delight in blending fable with history. In every career of life, in the pursuit of science especially, they enjoy a pleasure in creating Herculeses.

  Francois Arago

  Hero, Passion, Science

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, translated by William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell and Robert Grant. Chapter: 'Joseph Fourier', p. 408, 1859.

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