Splendid Quotes - Page 9

The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

Ellen Terry

Thinking, Blue, Expression

Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Beauty, Fruit, Paint

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Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

Jean Houston

Mind, Trying, Each Day

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Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

Herbert Kaufman

Achievement, Finals, Score

Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart.

Sister Nivedita

Children, Heart, White

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

E. F. Schumacher

Civilization, Skills, Achievement

E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?"

Robertson Davies

Discovery, Civilization, Two

"The Cornish Trilogy".

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How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Angel, Past, Men

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In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

George Mikes

Funny, Humorous, Russia

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The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Philosophy, Tools, Records

NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER (1898). “THE MEANING OF EDUCATION AND OTHERS ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES”

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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

Jerome K. Jerome

Horse, Men, Two

Jerome K. Jerome (2018). “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.62, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Plato, Pride, Dwelling

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A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Art, Men, Abuse

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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Martial

Bird, Tails, Proud

Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

Pablo Neruda

Patience, Burning, Attainment

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The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Son, Player

"Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".

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In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

Constantin Stanislavski

Art, Stars, Roots

Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.220, A&C Black

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A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

W. G. Grace

Effort, Healthy, Fellowship

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Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Dale Carnegie

Ambition, Judgement, Energy

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Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

John Quincy Adams

Country, Integrity, Party

John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!

Peter Cushing

Character, Impact, Yellow

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My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

Max Beckmann

Art, Average, Fairy Tale

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At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.

Ed McClanahan

Years, America, Water

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People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Alice Duer Miller

Wall, Hate, Mean

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Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

Ansel Adams

Children, Legacy, Turns

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