I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting,… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to.… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image