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Quotes About Marvelous

You are without a doubt a remarkable man,' Danglars said. 'And whatever philosophers say, it's marvellous to be rich.
~ Alexandre Dumas
There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
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
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
~ Albert Finney
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 marvellous than the land
~ E. M. Forster
We discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.
~ Edward Abbey
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
~ Edward Abbey
If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams.
~ Edward Abbey
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.
~ James Henry Breasted
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.
~ Julia Child
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.
~ Hayley Mills
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
~ Anais Nin
What I corrupted is what is called the truth in favour of a more marvellous world.
~ Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
~ Anais Nin
Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!
~ Andre Gide
In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.
~ Saul Bellow
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
~ Vernon Howard
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso
Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
~ James Branch Cabell
Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
~ Albert Einstein
As a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season.
~ Elaine Dundy
Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
~ Antonin Artaud
Last night, as I slept, I dreamt- marvelous error!- that it was God I had here inside my heart.
~ Antonio Machado