Spectacular Quotes

318 Spectacular quotes by 252 unique authors

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our… — Will Self
'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics… — Grace Slick
Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing… — Patti Smith
The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's… — Steven Spielberg
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. — Amy Winehouse
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest. — David A. Bednar
The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible… — Cathleen Schine
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth.… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can… — Neal A. Maxwell
In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never… — Naomi Shihab Nye
I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The point of going somewhere like the Napo River in Ecuador is not to see the most spectacular anything. It is simply to see what… — Annie Dillard
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound… — Che Guevara
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near… — Charles Bukowski

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