Magnificent Quotes

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

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.

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.

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.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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.

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.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

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.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

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

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

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.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

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.

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.