Sensational Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Facts always are sensational.

  Saul Bellow

  Facts

  Saul Bellow (2013). “Seize the Day”, p.50, Odyssey Editions

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• I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Asking, Revelations, Minutes

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• She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Slaughterhouse Five, Dull

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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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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• 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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• I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Light, Mind

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.148, Random House

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• We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Opportunity, Ideas

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.64, Discovery House

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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• Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Differences, Feet

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• I think people should have fun with fashion, should enjoy wearing beautiful clothes--but also not save everything for the best. Fashion is there to be enjoyed, to be indulged--to wow in. Don't save it for Sunday best only. Get it out of the tissue paper and be sensational every day.

  John Galliano

  Beautiful, Fashion, Fun

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• A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

  Nick Lowe

  Musician, Depth, Culmination

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• I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, Careers, Voice

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• Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gun, Sound, Christianity

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• We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that God does not often require us to perform sensational or extraordinary deeds but rather to try to do better today than we did yesterday. He is mindful of our desires, our determination, and our direction as well as of our deeds.

  Brent L. Top

  Spiritual, Determination, Yesterday

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• The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Essentials, Fundamentals, Influence

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• Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

  Hippocrates

  Health, Medicine, Physicians

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• I believe in the runner's high, and I believe that those who are passionate about running are the ones who experience it to the fullest degree possible. To me, the runner's high is a sensational reaction to a great run! It's an exhilarating feeling of satisfaction and achievement. It's like being on top of the world, and truthfully... there's nothing else quite like it!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Running, Believe, Exhilarating Feeling

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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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• 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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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Air, People

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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