Sensational Quotes

• After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

  Ava Gardner

  Hands, Directors, Tests

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The simplification of anything is always sensational.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplification

  "Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

  Norma Shearer

  Rigged

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

  Brian Wilson

  Believe, Feelings, Intuition

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• It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

  Robert Wagner

  Series

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

  Anthony Hecht

  Children, Strange, Should

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• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  Walter Isaacson

  Kindness, Thinking, Trying

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• Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

  Ernie Pyle

  Gun, Literature, Enough

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

  GG Allin

  Picks

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• Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Men, Attractive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.52, BookBaby

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• I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Life Is, Truth Seekers

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• We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

  Warren Buffett

  Ingredients

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Giving, Sense Of Humor

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Mean

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• It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste.

  George Michael

  Gay, People, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Past, Alcohol, United States

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• This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That's really liberating, and I try to convey that in my work, that your eyes are free and you are free to use them.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Eye, Design, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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• Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

  John Keegan

  Energy, Pieces, Speech

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• I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Player, Thinking

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• It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

  Scott Weiland

  Air, Stories, Agendas

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• I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I collected a great deal of material, including a number of banal, irrelevant photos, and then in the course of my work I came back to the very pictures I had actually wanted to avoid, which summed up the various stories.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Men, Numbers

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