Marvelous Quotes

485 quotes by 397 authors

Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl'… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these… — Frances Xavier Cabrini
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself. — Pope John Paul II
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… — Octavio Paz
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. — Johnny Carson
It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge.… — Gore Vidal
Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue. — Harry Carpenter
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up.… — Klaus Kinski
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was… — Cab Calloway
To me there is a name for each person. I think itâ€™s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. Itâ€™s either… — John Cassavetes
Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in… — Donald O'Connor
A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength is his ability… — Edouard Boubat
Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room.Â The sun does… — Louis Kahn
There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that… — Richard Adams
If a manâ€™s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies… — Edward Abbey
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. — Edward Abbey
I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places… — Walter F. Mondale

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