Quotes About Remarkable

This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. . . . It has the words "DON'T PANIC" inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

Ignoring the vast difference in scale, the authors had found the structures were remarkably similar. Neurons and galaxies were both assembled together in a complex web, spread out in long filaments and nodes that linked them up. Additional analysis revealed that the distribution of the neuronal network in the brain and the distribution of matter in the cosmic web were eerily similar.

You're about to drink wine that didn't come out of a box, remarkable. Possible Nobel Prize remarkable. I haven't begun to determine if there are any real-world applications, but on theoretical grounds this could be a huge breakthrough.

All lives are extraordinary. All lives are simultaneously banal and obvious.

But He is the Lord, and He might tell us of some other remarkable things he has done. He might tell us about the time He sent one of His celestial glories down into our sky over Bethlehem. And He did this to especially mark the most remarkable thing that He ever did—His eternal Word took the form of a baby boy. And the miracle in the sky above was nothing in comparison to the miracle in Mary's arms in the house below.

Be phenomenal or be forgotten.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

There are no ordinary lives.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Magazines were new. The Gentleman's Magazine—the first periodical called a "magazine"—appeared in London in 1731. It offered "a Monthly Collection, to treasure up, as in a Magazine, the most remarkable Pieces."3 The metaphor is to weapons. A magazine is, literally, an arsenal; a piece is a firearm.

Best fucking speech I ever heard.

This act of generosity—Cecelia and Emeline had nothing to gain from him, personally—still struck him as extraordinary.

that good looking – Astaire, his name was – but he was a brilliant

Most of the truly remarkable experiences I've had in theatre have filled me with uncertainty and disorientation

There's never any warning that something extraordinary is about to happen, is there?

He was at once the commonest and the most remarkable product of civilization. He was nine out of ten people that one passes on a city street—and he was a hairless ape with two dozen tricks. He was the hero of a thousand romances of life and art—and he was a virtual moron, performing staidly yet absurdly a series of complicated and infinitely astounding epics over a span of threescore years.

Rosalind: I wonder if you know you love me. Ryder [started]: What--Oh--you know you're remarkable! Rosalind: Because you know I'm an awful proposition. Anyone who marries me will have his hands full.

A very confused, very juvenile moment of awkward backings and bumpings followed, and everyone found himself talking to the person he least desired to. Isabella manoeuvred herself and Froggy Parker, freshman at Harvard, with whom she had once played hop-scotch, to a seat on the stairs. A humorous reference to the past was all she needed. The things Isabelle could do socially with one idea were remarkable.

Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.

C'è qualcos'altro che devi sempre ricordare. Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.

Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: "If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product." My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if and lady. Does he suppose you're not a lady? she says.

Early in 1955 Flannery completed work on her second book, a collection of these stories which she entitled A Good Man Is Hard to Find. In January we sent it to press, having set publication for June. I remember our amusement at Evelyn Waugh's reaction to the advance proofs we sent him: "If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable.