Marvelous Quotes - page 3

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. (David Levithan)
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. View quote
Amelia Barr
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession. View quote
Timothy Shay Arthur
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. View quote
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. View quote
Jimmy Dean
I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time. View quote
Carolyn Keene
Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this. View quote
Marie Windsor
Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
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)
Every holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know. It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. View quote
Padre Pio
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. View quote
N. Scott Momaday
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. View quote
Edward Thorndike
With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is. View quote
Joe Elliott
I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust. View quote
Brian Blessed
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering. View quote
David Whyte
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there. View quote
Emilio Ambasz
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing. View quote
Hayley Mills
Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out. View quote
Jack Germond
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. (Jimmy Breslin)
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike
A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat. View quote
Paz Vega
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. View quote
Ronnie Barker
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. View quote
Rudolph A. Marcus