Marvelously Beautiful Quotes

#1. Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

Daniel Radcliffe

#2. A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. But enough of that
here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.

Saul Bellow

#4. Landscape is my religion.
... God in a green legend, I lean over the pool
In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood
Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches
And floored with a skin of water.

Norman MacCaig

#5. I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Roald Dahl

#6. The Price Is Right can really get me going.

Sam Peckinpah

#7. I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

Vera Farmiga

#8. There is only one relief for great sufferings, and that is to endure and surrender to their compulsion.

Seneca.

#9. Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

Torae

#10. The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here.

Robert Bunsen

#11. Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

Ephrem The Syrian

#12. It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

Vanna Bonta

#13. One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but felt like they couldn't say that out loud. And apparently the discussion is now opening up. I think change is going to be a long time coming.

Susan Cain

#14. Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

Elisabeth Shue

#15. Ice queens didn't break, after all. They melted. And Marco didn't have enough warmth for that.

Sarah Addison Allen

#16. As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass

#17. She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

Jonathan Safran Foer