Spectacular Quotes
318 quotes by 258 authors
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical…
— J. J. Abrams
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd…
— Lewis Black
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The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation…
— Lewis Black
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2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made…
— David Cameron
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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we…
— Barry Schuler
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There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building…
— David Chipperfield
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Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
— John C. Maxwell
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The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java…
— Cael Sanderson
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[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring…
— Edward Victor Appleton
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I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil.…
— Nicholas Kurti
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The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult…
— H. Bentley Glass
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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
— Philip Yancey
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Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation.
— Roger Staubach
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It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these…
— Peter Cosgrove
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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable…
— Peter Bergen
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The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the…
— Mary Fulbrook
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This is a good look. I'm gonna mess him up," Pattinson praises Stewart. "And I'm just like, I don't know what's going on? Where am…
— Robert Pattinson
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