Quotes About Marvelous

#1. The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise.

Peter Green

#2. This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

Pete Hamill

#3. The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Edward Thorndike

#4. You look marvelous!

Fernando Lamas

#5. Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

Andre Gide

#6. That was when I fell in love with my son, when I understood how insignificant I was, and how marvelous he was, and how one day he'd feel the exact same thing.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#7. He simply went from vertical to horizontal in one marvelous geometric sweep.

Terry Pratchett

#8. The body is a marvelous machine ... a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

Theodor Herzl

#9. Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#10. Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

Vincente Minnelli

#11. Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea?

Mark Twain

#12. He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

Plato

#13. Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to make my nickname "End Zone Tommy!"

Tommy McDonald

#14. Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

Jay Chiat

#15. The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Johannes Tauler

#16. I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

Barbara Bush

#17. It's a lovely day and we're under siege. People are trying to murder us." Her eyes shone with excitement. "Isn't it marvelous?

Ilona Andrews

#18. The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

Dave Brubeck

#19. Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Dean Koontz

#20. Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

Nikki Giovanni

#21. What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven .

Gordon B. Hinckley

#22. God's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating.

John Rhys-Davies

#24. The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard Dawkins. And indeed, Dawkins has done a marvelous job of popularizing Darwinism. But Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-Darwinian.

Ernst W. Mayr

#25. That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

Ilka Chase

#26. There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack ... you will make marvelous demonstrations.

Al Koran

#27. Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

William James

#28. Our point is that to reJesus the church, we need to go back to the daring, radical, strange, wonderful, inexplicable, unstoppable, marvelous, unsettling, disturbing, caring, powerful God-Man.

Michael Frost

#29. Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

Maurice Chevalier

#30. If anyone uses the words 'marvelous imagery' or 'narrative arc,' slap them for me.

Liane Moriarty

#31. There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#32. If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

Diana Vreeland

#33. Now I say that I know the meaning of my life:"To live for God, for my soul." And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such, indeed, is the meaning of everything existing.(12-7)

Leo Tolstoy

#34. Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

Harry Carpenter

#35. When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Jimmy Breslin

#36. Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#37. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

Madeleine L'Engle

#38. Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Lloyd Alexander

#39. Jesus's parables and the remarkable lives of Moses and Gideon reveal that God chose imperfect, sometimes flawed individuals to do marvelous works to His glory.

Teresa Hampton

#40. I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Warren Christopher

#41. In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

Heinrich Heine

#42. Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

Donald O'Connor

#43. I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

Gore Vidal

#44. Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn't anything that you can't repent from and that you can't be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

Boyd K. Packer

#45. I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

Allen Steck

#46. There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

Katherine Anne Porter

#47. She was wearing a sleeveless top that held her breasts in the most marvelous way, the balance between what it revealed and what it left to the imagination as poetic as a Shakespearean sonnet.

E.E. Giorgi

#48. Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

Criss Jami

#49. I'm in love with you. I think everything you do is marvelous.

L.J.Smith

#50. Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.

Jonathan Littell

#51. I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Edward Abbey

#52. This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

Joel Salatin

#53. It's true. Every time you wake up, you let fly the most marvelous string of curses. It's never the same twice, do you know that? It's so intriguing. You're like a rooster that crows blasphemy."

"Oh, there's a cock crowing, all right," he muttered.

Tessa Dare

#54. Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Diana Vreeland

#55. There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

Stuart Wilde

#56. You could have that sort of life if you ask God for it. If you give your life to God, He will provide for you in marvelous ways. He promises us that. If He takes care of the sparrows, how much more will He take care of us?

Matthew Quick

#57. Oh, what marvelous egomaniacs you men are!

Nora Roberts

#58. The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

Wilfred Grenfell

#59. In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#60. I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.

Dino De Laurentiis

#61. We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Nikolai Gogol

#62. Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

Nora Ephron

#63. Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#64. A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

Henry David Thoreau

#65. Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#66. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Elizabeth I

#67. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#68. Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

Nikola Tesla

#69. It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#70. An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man Ray

#71. We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Rupert Everett

#72. If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#73. Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.

Philip Gourevitch

#74. There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

J.D. Salinger

#75. Prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Madeleine L'Engle

#76. The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

Jeff Smith

#77. The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

David Whyte

#78. One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

Duane Michals

#79. Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I'd discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.

Holly Jacobs

#80. Inside each of us there is a marvelous compass which greatly favors life, freedom and vitality.

Bryant McGill

#81. Doris said the only thing anybody can say in an amateur theatrical society when somebody cries. She said, Why, no dear - you were marvelous.

Kurt Vonnegut

#82. The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Alan Watts

#83. Brilliant. Marvelous.

Kate Noble

#84. Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity. Now that America and the novel are dead, I hope we can have more great American novels as alive as this one.

Sam Lipsyte

#85. Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Noam Chomsky

#86. No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Robert Briffault

#87. Not only must we move forward in a monumental manner more copies of the Book of Mormon, but we must move boldly forward into our own lives and throughout the earth more of its marvelous messages.

Ezra Taft Benson

#88. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose
something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to
overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if
there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Helen Keller

#89. Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#90. Marvelous are the innocent.

Virginia Woolf

#91. The elf nodded. From her saddlebow, she took a lute, a marvelous instrument of light, tastefully inlaid wood with a slender, engraved neck. Without a word, she handed the lute to Dandilion. The poet accepted the instrument and smiled. Also without a word, but his eyes said a great deal. "Farewell,

Andrzej Sapkowski

#92. Your mind contains great capital.
Your heart contains extraordinary riches.
Your soul contains remarkable treasure.
Your life contains marvelous wealth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#93. The lure of the marvelous blunts our critical faculties.

Carl Sagan

#94. It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#95. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

Susan Block

#96. Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#97. Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land.

E. M. Forster

#98. Belief is both a marvelous and a terrible thing. Belief makes things real.

H.J. Blenkinsop

#99. History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Howard Nemerov

#100. THE PEERLESS PRODIGIES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND GREAT PRESENTATION OF MARVELOUS LIVING HUMAN CURIOSITIES

Frederick Drimmer