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Quotes About Marvellous

I'm definitely not opposed to adopting. I think that would be marvellous.
~ Jo Frost
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.
~ Robert Smith
'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.
~ Roger Moore
They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions; and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
~ Washington Irving
I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He used to say that all good detective work was a mere matter of method. My system is based on his—though of course I have progressed rather further. He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever.
~ Agatha Christie
Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.
~ Wesley Sneijder
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
~ Dinah Sheridan
It seems not improbable that when Turing let slip the fact of his homosexuality "accidentally," especially to a young man like Bayley, he was hoping against hope that the admission might provoke an expression of reciprocal desire. That rarely happened. Later he told Robin Gandy, "Sometimes you're sitting talking to someone and you know that in three quarters of an hour you will either be having a marvellous night or you will be kicked out of the room.
~ David Leavitt
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country
~ Morton Feldman
most of all he wanted to tell them about the marvellous adventure he had shared with her,
~ David Walliams
It's quite true to say that if you work with marvellous fresh ingredients, the simplest dish is taken to another level.
~ Ainsley Harriott
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, 'marvellous'.
~ Richie Benaud
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
~ Angela Carter
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.
~ Angela Carter
I still remember the words that were going through my mind up there," said Julian. "I thought that, ultimately, life is all about choices. One's destiny unfolds according to the choices one makes, and I felt certain that the choice I had made was the right one. I knew my life would never be the same and that something marvellous, maybe even miraculous, was about to happen to me. It was an amazing awakening.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
~ Karan Mahajan
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
~ Antonio Machado
Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based on nothing but the truth, but who come back fresh from marvellous escapes and take up their knives and forks, with humility and good manners, prepared to live happily ever after -- like them, dazed and powerful with secrets, I never said a word
~ Alice Munro
It astonishes me how delicately you can make distinctions between women. There was a marvellous paragraph on that. Among one hundred women you will distinguish five. It is more than Don Juan ever did.
~ Anais Nin
I have always kept in mind the advice of Ronaldinho, and he spoke wonders of Barcelona and the city, which he told me is marvellous.
~ Neymar
It's raining women's voices as if they had died even in memory, and it's raining you as well- Marvellous encounters of my life (o little drops!)
~ Apollinaire
There is more of the marvellous in an old library than ever any magic could work!
~ George MacDonald
We had heard a world of talk about the marvellous beauty of Lake Tahoe, and finally curiosity drove us thither to see it.
~ Mark Twain