Marvelous Quotes
485 Marvelous quotes by 397 unique authors
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Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
— Terry Pratchett
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Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me.…
— J D Salinger
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We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must…
— Charles Darwin
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I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships…
— Kate Morton
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If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous…
— David Levithan
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Marvelous,” she said. “Tell me about this tapestry.” Arachne’s lips curled over her mandibles. “Why do you care? You're about to die.” “Well, yes,” Annabeth…
— Rick Riordan
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The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all…
— Herman Melville
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Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.
— Hermann Hesse
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
— Anais Nin
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Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the…
— Gary Chapman
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Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or…
— Donna Tartt
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She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and…
— Joseph Campbell
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How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your…
— Haruki Murakami
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Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up…
— Laini Taylor
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S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!
— Ira Gershwin
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Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
— Bernard Malamud
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Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
— James Branch Cabell
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It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid,…
— Victor Frederick Weisskopf
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The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
— Steve Tisch
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One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy,…
— Paul Johnson
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I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
— Marcus Brigstocke
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I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children…
— Brian Blessed
Who Wrote These Marvelous Quotes
397 authors contributed a total of 485 Marvelous Quotes, led by these top contributors: