Spectacular Quotes
318 Spectacular quotes by 252 unique authors
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Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far…
— Vannevar Bush
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Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in…
— Drew Bledsoe
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You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has…
— Mario Diaz-Balart
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You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular…
— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the…
— Harry Shum, Jr.
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your…
— Desmond Tutu
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Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit…
— Ralph Marston
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The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who…
— Robert Genn
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Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
— Robert Genn
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In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll…
— Ruth Park
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Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
— Stanislaw Lem
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I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all…
— Madonna Ciccone
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Don't fight forces, use them.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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