Spectacular Quotes

318 Spectacular quotes by 252 unique authors

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future. — Dieter Rams
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous. — Brian Greene
After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique… — Yotam Ottolenghi
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973. — Brendan I. Koerner
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football. — Roger Staubach
Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything… — Michael J. Massimino
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading… — Martin Jacques
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and… — Elaine Pagels
Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries. — Louise Nurding
Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how… — Alan Arkin
One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think… — Audra McDonald
With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many… — Louise Leakey
Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I… — Jan de Bont
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes,… — Henry Petroski
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and… — Chelsea Cain
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have… — Yves Saint Laurent
My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. — Gig Young
We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out… — Robert Teeter
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across… — John Negroponte
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. — Rem Koolhaas
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in… — Michael Mandelbaum
Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on… — Graham Joyce
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior… — Bryce Courtenay
Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the… — Tiesto
People Express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest. — Alfred Kahn

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