Marvelous Quotes

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. (Norman Mailer)
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. View quote
Anthony Trollope
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. View quote
Aristotle
It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. View quote
Rex Stout
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. View quote
Bill Moyers
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected? View quote
Pliny the Elder
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? View quote
Geraldine Chaplin
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. (Helen Keller)
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels. View quote
Theodor Herzl
How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. View quote
Dino De Laurentiis
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. View quote
Mary Chapin Carpenter
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. View quote
Robert Vaughan
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child. View quote
Maria Montessori
But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. View quote
Simone Weil
Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and – to perfect it. (Max Beckmann)
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. View quote
Gore Vidal
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
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. View quote
Albert Finney
Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin