Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yes, magnifliant. Magnificent, brilliant, splendid, superb. I could go on.” — Ally Broadfield Copy Share Image
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust Copy Share Image
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in… — Audrey Meadows Copy Share Image
My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants… The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
