Magnificent Quotes - Page 24

• There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

  Faith Baldwin

  Fishing, Stupidity, Bait

  Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

  Albert Camus

  Feelings, May, Intense

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• 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.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Uplifting, Art, Creativity

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• You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

  Graham Taylor

  Sports, Community, Germany

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• My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.

  Eli Wallach

  Firsts, Seven, Western

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

  Louis Susman

  Queens, Feel Good, Glue

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• If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

  Bob Costas

  Nba Championships, Lasts, Jordan

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• Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Views, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.78

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• Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.

  Magnus

  Teenager, Moving, Self

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• God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

  Owen Feltham

  Together, World, Stones

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• New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

  Steve Albini

  New York, Home, Eating

  "Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.

  James Dwight Dana

  Science, Moon, Volcanoes

  "On the Volcanoes of the Moon", American Journal of Science, p. 347, 1846.

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• 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.

  George Saintsbury

  Romance, Stories, West

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

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• 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.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Optimism

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• Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

  Adam Schiff

  Beautiful, Faith, Dream

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• Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.

  John Muir

  Life, Running, Fun

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.720, Library of America

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• Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I feel as though there is nothing we can do for elephants - I feel that the only good I am doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth.

  Roland Smith

  Animal, Elephants, Earth

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• To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Crush, Weed, Struggle

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• Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .

  George Bodenheimer

  Sports, Football, Running

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• Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.

  Andy Weir

  Beautiful, Glasses, Water

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• Nobody knows but you what it is that’s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life. You need to do it by your own chosen standards. Your life does not need to look like anybody else’s life. It’s a commitment that you’re making to a magnificent life measured by your own chosen standards.

  Gay Hendricks

  Commitment, Doe, Needs

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

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Army, Proud, Economy

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• I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

  Julie Newmar

  Feet, Pounds, Looks

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