Marvelous Thing Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by… — Hazel Scott
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with… — Monica Baldwin
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is… — David Cerone
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise. — Peter Green
I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part… — Sheri S. Tepper
Itâ€™s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or… — Banana Yoshimoto
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make oneâ€™s living from writing sentences.… — John Banville
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The… — Joyce Brothers
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not… — Robert Vaughn
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a… — Neil Gaiman
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. — David Whyte
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible… — Kenneth Lee Pike
We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all… — Billy Graham
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 have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom… — Pablo Neruda
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. — Agatha Christie
A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God. — Gordon B. Hinckley
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

Who Wrote These Marvelous Thing Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 28 Marvelous Thing Quotes as follows: