Fabulous Quotes - Page 15

• It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Past, Clouds

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• I'm not sure that's such a great idea." Luke said. "It's a fabulous idea." Jace dropped the paper back onto the table, and began to slide off his jacket. "I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," Magnus muttered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Choices, Use

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• ...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Real, Islands

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

  Judy Blundell

  Regret, Lying, Heart

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• Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?

  Holly Black

  Coffee, Panty Hose, Bags

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: “My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak! Thank you, Kwikspell!

  J. K. Rowling

  Wife, Months, Yaks

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• I wasn’t a fabulous cook. I didn’t have a boyfriend, much less a husband. And I wasn’t a big financial success. I could live with all those failings as long as I knew that once in a while I looked really hot.

  Janet Evanovich

  Husband, Long, Hot

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.60, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Today

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• I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

  Anita Loos

  Thinking, Destiny, Careers

  Anita Loos (1977). “Cast of Thousands”, Smithmark Pub

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• You want something to drink?” – Nick “Human blood would be fabulous. But since I doubt you’re donating, let me suffer for a minute longer.” – Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Want Something, Doubt

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• If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, Obligation, Ifs

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Perfection, Littles, Pressure

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• Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

  Holland Cotter

  New York, Bones, Natural

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• I've found that eating vegan the last five or six months has really given me energy, I feel good and I look fabulous.

  Ted Danson

  Feel Good, Energy, Six Months

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• I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

  Christina Hendricks

  Girl, School, White

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• I've had some wonderful love affairs and some that didn't work out. I don't want to dwell on that and I don't want to put people down, but I think all the fabulous places I've been, the wonderful things that have happened for me, the great people I've met - that ought to make a story.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Thinking, People, Work Out

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• And one more thing: Sometimes comfort doesn’t matter. When a shoe is freakin’ fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you’re better than everyone else.

  Clinton Kelly

  Shoes, Comfort, May

  Clinton Kelly (2008). “Freakin' Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better Than Everyone Else”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

  Stuart Weitzman

  Jobs, Men, Looks

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?  And, when you consider that this incalculably subtle organism is inseparable from the still more marvelous patterns of its environment - from the minutest electrical designs to the whole company of the galaxies - how is it conceivable that this incarnation of all eternity can be bored with being?

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Eye, Jewels

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• The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing -- love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Struggle, Differences

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

  Martin Gardner

  Monsters, Energy, Lenses

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• Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

  Gwen Stefani

  Self, Getting Older, Young

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• You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things...I just go, That's just fabulous.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Writing, People, Needs

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• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

  Edmund Burke

  Nature, Real, Historical

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.484, Penguin

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