Fabulous Quotes - Page 18

In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green soap navigates the tidal slosh of seas breaking on legendary beaches; in faith 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

Beach, Stars, Real

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

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Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

Lewis Carroll

Believe, Monsters, Alive

Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook”, p.58, Wizio Publishing

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Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Alan Moore

Ideas, Breathtaking, Blind

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Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

Bruce Springsteen

Teenager, Player, Guitar

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With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

Michael Symon

Thinking, Car, Able

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I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

Serena Williams

Thinking, Mad, Looks

"Serena's Glam Slam" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 3, 2010.

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Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

Naomi Wolf

Fabulous Life, Schadenfreude, Ifs

"Madonna acts just like a serious male artist would - and people hate her for it" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2012.

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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Kurt Vonnegut

Food, Kind, Good Food

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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

Inspirational, Friends, Horse

On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

Funny, Food, Humor

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It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Book, Reading, Richness Of Life

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

Book, Giving, My Best Friend

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In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert.

Jerry Spinelli

Cat, Dark, Opposites

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.15, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Grateful, Adversity, Hatred

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wall, Existentialism, Relation

"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.

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My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

Sandra Lee

Fun, Years, Soul

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I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel.

Debi Mazar

Husband, Shoes, Uggs

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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.

Ted Allen

Wine, White, Cake

"Ted Allen / 'Queer Eye' for a wine guy". Interview with W. Blake Gray, www.sfgate.com. October 27, 2006.

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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

Peter Lynch

Thinking, Two, People

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Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?

Jacob Bronowski

Hurt, Enemy, Wish

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America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?

Tom Robbins

Funny, Humorous, America

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.187, Bantam

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That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

Tony Curtis

Alzheimer's, People, Disease

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Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

Tracie Bennett

Beautiful, Black And White, Our World

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My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.

Jane Asher

Orange, Looks, Shade

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In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

John Paul DeJoria

Government, Years, Giving

"Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. April 16, 2012.

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