Sensational Quotes

• After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

  Ava Gardner

  Hands, Directors, Tests

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

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• The simplification of anything is always sensational.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplification

  "Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

  Norma Shearer

  Rigged

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

  Brian Wilson

  Believe, Feelings, Intuition

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• It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

  Robert Wagner

  Series

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Strange, Should

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• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  Walter Isaacson

  Kindness, Thinking, Trying

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• Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

  Ernie Pyle

  Gun, Literature, Enough

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

  GG Allin

  Picks

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• Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Men, Attractive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.52, BookBaby

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• I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Life Is, Truth Seekers

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• We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

  Warren Buffett

  Ingredients

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Baseball, Party, Pockets

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.19, Penguin

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• Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

  Tony Curtis

  Hollywood, Built, Merry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

  John Waters

  Relax, Trials, Way

  "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste". Book by John Waters, September 1981.

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• Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Team, Kissing, Battle

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK

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• We are a sensational team.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Team

  "Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - review" by Linda Buckley-Archer, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Lying, Special

  Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7

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• There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

  Rachel Cohn

  Adequate, Dictionary, Sensations

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.238, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sleep, Paris, Perfect

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.59, Crown/Archetype

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• Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

  Naomi Wolf

  Risk, Documentary Films, Documentaries

  "Smugglers of Truth". www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2009.

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• Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.

  Ina Coolbrith

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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