Marvelous Quotes - Page 15

• I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

  Guy Clark

  Player, Guitar, Years

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• For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

  Lionel Barrymore

  Meaningful, Firsts, Life Is

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• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Morning, Cost, Downtown

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• The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

  Robert Vaughn

  Men, Years, People

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• Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

  L. Frank Baum

  Love, Heart, Childhood

  L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Fog, Cities

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• Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Moon, Thinking

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• I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Long, Trying, Crafts

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• The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Horse, Blood, Two

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• My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

  Brian Roberts

  Father, Mistake, Names

  Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

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• When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

  David Plotz

  Sight, May, Too Much

  "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciate, Principles, Needs

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• I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

  William McNamara

  Lying, Humble, Reality

  William McNamara (1977). “Mystical passion: spirituality for a bored society”

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• I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Wonderful, Relationship With God

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• A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."

  Robert Wise

  Reflection, Space, Feelings

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• I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

  Winsor McCay

  Dream, Art, Character

  Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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• Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Choices, Psychology, Desire

  "4D Timelock". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . The subject matter is 'relatable,' as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . . Indeed, if you're looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.

  Blake Bailey

  Book, Writing, Men

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• There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

  Lucretius

  Doe, Admire, Mankind

  Lucretius (2007). “The Nature of Things”, p.96, Penguin UK

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• I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.

  George Jung

  Marijuana, Thinking, People

  Interview with PBS Frontline, www.pbs.org. 2000.

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• If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

  Mos Def

  Needs, Radio, Ifs

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Reflection

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• Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stars, Mind, Study

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