Marvelous Quotes

485 Marvelous quotes by 397 unique authors

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. — Marilyn Monroe
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the… — Susan Orlean
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species… — Man Ray
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've… — Richard Russo
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. — Matt Taibbi
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express… — Johannes Tauler
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted… — Anthony Trollope
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. — Barbara Walters
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I… — Orson Welles
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit… — Ellen G. White
In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious… — Ellen G. White
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of… — Richard P. Feynman
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance… — Madeleine L'Engle
Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. — Andre Breton
I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was… — Thomas Harris
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that… — Tom Robbins
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding… — Albert Einstein
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than… — Kurt Vonnegut
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary… — Stephen Jay Gould
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small… — Elie Wiesel
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the… — Anais Nin
It's a marvelous night for a moondance! — Van Morrison
Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-" "Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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