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Quotes About Majestic

There's this sky I know
~ Fiona Wood
A few more seconds passed before someone in the group began to stir. A man. He got to his feet slowly, moment by moment, a huge man, rising off the floor like Godzilla wading out of the water, his entire being expanding and filling the room. When he stood all the way up, the top of his head nearly scraped the ceiling. The big man shuffled toward them like a planet with two feet.
~ Harlan Coben
Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.
~ Heinrich Heine
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
~ Herman Melville
The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
~ Caitlin Doughty
The elegant black-and-white ship, all 24,170 tons of it, loomed like a mountain in a dinner jacket.
~ Michael Chabon
he's a fine, fine horse
~ Michael Morpurgo
I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.
~ Alana Haim
It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.
~ Bill Bryson
Silbury Hill is a wonder. It is 130 feet high—about the height of a ten-story building—and is entirely made by hand. It is the tallest artificial prehistoric mound in the world. There is nothing like it anywhere else. It is covered in grass and is uniform all the way around. It is sensationally lovely to look at. It is genuinely perfect. It deserves to be world famous.
~ Bill Bryson
At the North Carolina border, the dull landscape ended abruptly, as if by decree. Suddenly the countryside rose and fell in majestic undulations, full of creeping thickets of laurel, rhododendron and palmetto.
~ Bill Bryson
Dans une grande âme tout est grand
~ Blaise Pascal
Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship.
~ Susanna Clarke
She was beautiful; she was also terrible. She was the Summer Queen.
~ Kailin Gow
But with unhurrying chase,And unperturbèd pace,Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,They beat—and a Voice beatMore instant than the Feet—"All things betray thee, who betrayest Me."
~ Francis Thompson
You are so serious, as if a glacier spoke in your ear or you had to walk through the great gate of Kiev to get to the living room.
~ Frank O'Hara
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
~ Henry James
He was distinguished to the tips of his polished nails, and there was not a movement of his fine perpendicular person that was not noble and majestic. Newman had never yet been confronted with such an incarnation of the art of taking oneself seriously; he felt a sort of impulse to step backward, as you do to get a view of a great facade.
~ Henry James
I felt her presence, by its spell of might,      Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night,      As of the one I love.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
~ Herman Melville
T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
~ Herman Melville
Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn
~ Herman Melville
Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven. So in dreams, have I seen majestic Satan thrusting forth his tormented colossal claw from the flame Baltic of Hell. But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.
~ Herman Melville
You know, buffalo are significantly bigger than elk. I grew up near Yellowstone so I've been near buffalo. Buffalo are huge.
~ Mike Leach