Quotes About Magnificent Creatures

#1. We are all prisoners of our birthdays," I said, "Though we try to transcend them. We are creatures of our times, and sometimes our souls peek through the cracks and yearn for the sky. And then we are magnificent creatures.

Jo Graham

#2. They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.

Donna Tartt

#3. It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

Paul McCartney

#4. Fake feeling good ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

Jean Bach

#5. I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

Joan Osborne

#6. Time is only the river of memory.

Elaine Neil Orr

#7. It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

Victoria Osteen

#8. Take time to smell the roses but be careful of the bees.

Tyler Perry

#9. That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

Albert Einstein

#10. You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

Tip O'Neill

#11. There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.

Ratan Tata

#12. This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

Eva Ibbotson

#13. Nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this - that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.

Anne Rice

#14. Somewhere in the far north of Canada there wuld be snow, falling soundlessly overy the Beaufort Sea, falling over the Artic without a soul to see it. What kind of weather was that, Samson wondered, and how was one to use this information except as proof that the world was too much to bear?

Nicole Krauss

#15. He looked at me. His firm, broad face showed weight-loss in deep shadows under the cheekbones, his eyes were sunken and his mouth sorely chapped and cracked. God knows what I looked like, when he looked like that. He smiled. 'With luck we shall make it, and without luck we shall not.'

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. Open your eyes: Each new day, in itself, has a secret.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. No one had ever left me so simultaneously relaxed and knotted up all at once (except maybe Rhett Butler, which doesn't count since he's not a real person).

Cecily White

#18. I love my home, spend as much time in London as I can, and try wherever possible to avoid travelling for work. Sometimes I think I'm really badly equipped to be an actress.

Romola Garai