Spectacular Now Quotes

#1. I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

Kaitlyn Dever

#2. Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I've always been more than content to tip my whisky bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the spectacular now.

Tim Tharp

#3. To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

Tim Tharp

#4. Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

Tim Tharp

#5. I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

Roy Halladay

#6. Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.

Lucy Punch

#7. At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Ruth Gordon

#8. Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Rick Riordan

#10. The trajectory of her scholastic progress to that point was spectacular and unprecedented, a model for all youth; it was also an invitation to fate to stick out a foot and trip her.

Abraham Verghese

#11. One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Rem Koolhaas

#12. There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Ian McDonald

#13. Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.

Eric Vance Walton

#14. I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders.

George W. Bush

#15. A big, spectacular thing can frequently be accomplished quickly. Quality usually takes longer. Fanfare and fireworks are not part of quality; therefore, only those who know true values are attracted to it. But when fanfare and fireworks are over, quality will remain.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#16. The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

Eric Johnston

#17. The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. They've made the mistake of thinking that power over others and leadership are the same thing.

Tim Tharp

#19. To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

#20. Your worth isn't dictated by the number of friends you have. You can have zero friends and still be the most amazing, spectacular person in the whole galaxy.

Krista Ritchie

#21. The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove, and realize you'll be walking along this spectacular meeting of land and sea for the next two hours.

Doug Ferguson

#22. Small daily happenings make life spectacular ... start enjoying the small things in life!

Andy Rooney

#23. At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.

Beau Willimon

#24. I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

Embeth Davidtz

#25. Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.

Max Anders

#26. Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else.

Tim Tharp

#27. But weren't done, not by a long shot. his great hands lifted me under my ass and my thighs, urging me to get on the table and lie on my side. His arm hooked under my leg right under the kneecap, and now everyone had a spectacular view of my dripping for him.

Lisa Lawrence

#28. Dare To Dream Big, Think Big, Live Big And Believe Big In Your Life. Now Focus On That Spectacular Sunset ... Because Destiny Is Calling You!

Timothy Pina

#29. This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

Itzhak Perlman

#30. When you're with a girl, it's always best to act like you're an old hand at everything - not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

Tim Tharp

#31. Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

Barry Schuler

#32. I don't think The Undertaker and Triple H need Shawn Michaels to deliver a spectacular match or make this incredibly interesting. Those two can do that on their own. Right now, as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to be there watching it like everyone else.

Shawn Michaels

#33. I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.

James Herriot

#34. Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Carolyn Porco

#35. Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

Bob Woodward

#36. We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language ... We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

Lewis Thomas

#37. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Stanley Kubrick

#38. There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.

Jay Maisel

#39. We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

Mother Teresa

#40. Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

Kim Kiyosaki

#41. In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#42. But spectacular lies don't need to be perfect. They rely less on the liar's skill than on the listener's expectations and wishes. After Mark's dishonesty was exposed, I understood how much I wised that what he had told me had been true.

Siri Hustvedt

#43. When a beauty hits you, you never complain! You just start demanding for stronger hits! Find a beauty and let it hit you! Find a spectacular rainbow amongst the clouds, find a river shining glamorously under the sun! Let it hit you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#44. People have a hunger to experience the spectacular, but the Lord is supernatural.

Sherry K. White

#45. Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

Raymond C. Hoiles

#46. Fate thought she was pulling us apart, when all along, she was setting the path for spectacular crash.

Nina G. Jones

#47. What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.

Jonathan Trigell

#48. What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

Andrew Bird

#49. One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.

Audra McDonald

#50. I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

David Feherty

#51. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map." - Kirkus Reviews

Milena Banks

#52. The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it's very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights.

Anne Michaels

#53. The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

Jen Lancaster

#54. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers

#55. No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

Busy Philipps

#56. I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

Charley Pride

#57. The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.

Sharon Bayliss

#58. An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.

Craig M. Mullaney

#59. The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.

Sally Ride

#60. Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others.

Janusz Korczak