Marvelous Quotes
485 Marvelous quotes by 397 unique authors
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What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle…
— Carl Sagan
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Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like…
— Ken Kesey
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The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and…
— Hugh Walpole
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Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats…
— Henry Miller
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What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with…
— Henry Miller
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Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and…
— Nikola Tesla
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates…
— Albert Einstein
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She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same…
— Robin Cook
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Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you.…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.
— Paulo Coelho
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Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
— Mark Helprin
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Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It…
— Joel Salatin
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
— Edward Abbey
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...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.
— Mark Helprin
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Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge…
— Stephen King
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The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is…
— Howard Zinn
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We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.…
— Anne Sexton
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On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how…
— Mary Oliver
Who Wrote These Marvelous Quotes
397 authors contributed a total of 485 Marvelous Quotes, led by these top contributors: