Fantastic Quotes - Page 38

• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Revolt, Artifice

  James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.59, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.

  Kesha

  Lifestyle, Commit, Whole

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

  Vinnie Jones

  Children, Home, Holiday

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• I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Real, Godly

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• The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Shadow, Dawn, Rooms

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.66, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Life, Book

  "Something Cool: Alec Soth's The Last Days Of W" by Anya Yurchyshyn, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2009.

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• You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

  Jean Rhys

  Thinking, Mirrors, Imagine

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• The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Believe, Monsters, Doe

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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• Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Quality, Essentials, Garbage

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.1, Macmillan

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• A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Looks, Matter

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• I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

  Max Perutz

  Memories, Greatness, Men

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• Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Fighting, Sneakers

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• If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Success, Stars, Philosophy

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• The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

  Kristin Hunter

  Children, Littles, Most Amazing

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• Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

  Alan Price

  Emotional, Fantasy, Classical Music

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  Ed O'Brien

  Country, Fantasy, Found

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• Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Science, Mind, Facts

  Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”, p.351, Macmillan

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• I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

  Warren Buffett

  Loyalty, Smoking, Dollars

  "Where should I invest my savings?" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2006.

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• If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Views, Religion

  John Shelby Spong (1994). “Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity”, Harpercollins

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• My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

  Meg Rosoff

  Daughter, Mother, Hopeless

  "Pieces of me: Meg Rosoff", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• . . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

  Edward T. Hall

  Men, Diversity, Littles

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• Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Moments, Universal

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• Harry Potter has been a fantastic experience and the fact it has made stars of us all is unbelievable at times - it really is magic of a sort.

  Rupert Grint

  Stars, Magic, Facts

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• Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.

  Robert Wyland

  Ocean, Sea, Imagination

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