Marvelous Quotes - Page 12

• History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

  Howard Nemerov

  Our World, Literature, Way

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• Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.

  Esther Vilar

  Art, Book, Men

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• If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Differences, Long

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• Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Firsts

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

  Rich Little

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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• Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in such little time from a marvelous supporting role in "Bridesmaids" to being the lead in several films that are coming out this year. She's extraordinary.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, Years, Roles

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Mysterious, Natural

  1850 Journal entry,16 Nov. In Bradford Torrey and F H Allen (eds) The Journals of Henry David Thoreau (1906).

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• Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fishes, and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. By the time I am 89, I shall have made more progress. By the time I am 90, I shall understand the deeper meaning of things. When I am 100, I shall be truly marvelous; and at 110 each dot and each line will possess a life of its own.

  Hokusai

  Passion, Animal, Years

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• O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

  William Carlos Williams

  Next, Chaos, Complexity

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Sound, Mastery

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• It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Ocean, Tired, Caring

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.22, Grove Press

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• The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.

  Lisa McMann

  Writing, Night, White

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• Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing about staff cutbacks and circulation declines, should embrace this book as a reminder of the highest ideals, and the absolute thrills, to be found in their profession. As for regular readers, Pulitzer's Gold offers marvelous storytelling, real-life adventures, and absolute proof that journalism can change our world for the better.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Real, Book, Inspiration

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• There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Father, Heart, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 220, 1895.

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• Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Men, Stories, Sat

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

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• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Philosophical, Ideas, Space

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• I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

  Allen Steck

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mountain

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• Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Joy, Pure, Nothingness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

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• That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

  Julian of Norwich

  Broken, God Love, Sin

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• Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

  E. Jean Carroll

  Evil, Drug, Way

  E. jean Carroll (1997). “A Dog in Heat is a Hot Dog and Other Rules to Live By”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Eternity Of Life, Goal

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• We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Blessing

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.183, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

  Euan Uglow

  Trying, Doe, Looks

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