Marvellous Quotes · Page 2

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

— Marya Mannes

How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an…

— Pope Francis

“Science is marvellous, it never rests and never accepts any simple answer at face value.”

— Anonymous

These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .

— Max Robertson

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.

— Antonio Machado

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Programmes like 'Who Do You Think You Are?' and 'Restoration' are marvellous.

— Geraldine James

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

— James Russell Lowell

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go…

— Richie Benaud

It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered…

— Christopher Columbus

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation…

— Leroy Hood

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous…

— Ken Dodd

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting,…

— Morton Feldman

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates…

— Walter Scott

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds…

— Francois Arago

One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of…

— Niels Bohr

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What…

— A. A. Gill

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to.…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived…

— Joe Quirk

All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite…

— Sarah Waters

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the…

— Swami Vivekananda

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

— Swami Vivekananda

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude…

— Paul Twitchell

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily…

— Paul Merton

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous.

— Paz Vega

“What makes the marvellous is its peculiar way of being ordinary; what makes the ordinary is its peculiar way of being marvellous.”

— Orhan Pamuk

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

— Peter Cundall

To be remembered by name for a character, with a sort of guilty joy, is... aw man, it's marvellous.

— Paterson Joseph

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

— William Shakespeare

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

— Anonymous

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

— Angela Carter

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

— Alberto Giacometti

How marvellous it is to enjoy Messi. No one can touch his numbers, and it is impossible for anyone to do what…

— Luis Enrique

“The horror, whatever it was, had not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

— E. M. Forster