Magnificent Quotes

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

My close-up was magnificent!

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.

The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent.

The Declaration is a magnificent document.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.