Superb Quotes - Page 2

• The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.

  Walter Bonatti

  Oxygen, Ideas, Pyramids

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• If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.

  Josh Linkner

  Design, Environmental, Quality

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• Italy is now a great country to invest in... Today we have fewer communists and those who are still there deny having been one. Another reason to invest in Italy is that we have beautiful secretaries... superb girls.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Girl, Country

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• Love is a word that is constantly heard,
  Hate is a word that is not.
  Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
  Love, I have read, is hot.
  But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
  And Love but a drug on the mart.
  Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
  But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

  Ogden Nash

  Art, Hate, School

  'Plea for Less Malice Toward None' (1933)

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• The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

  Claude Bernard

  Long, Kitchen, May

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

  Kurt Andersen

  Intellectual, Wonderful, Century

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• Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I have pleasure in sending you this first dispatch ever telegraphed from an aerial station.

  Thaddeus S. C. Lowe

  War, Cities, Firsts

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• Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro’s done is superb.

  Helen Caldicott

  Country, Cuba, Done

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• David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.

  Sheldon Siegel

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• The sparkling wines from Ridgeview Estate [...] are superb and will forever put to rest the notion that England is not capable of making good wine.

  Eric Asimov

  Wine, Forever, England

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• Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!

  Brigham Young

  Giving, Effort, Vision

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• Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

  Horace

  Latin, Insulting, Victory

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• Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

  Diane Arbus

  Happiness, War, Breathtaking

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Morning, Night

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• ...Her parents were going to a conference for the weekend. The conference was called "Lawyers are Lovely, Great and Superb: so Why Does Everyone Think that They are Liars, Greedy and Scum?" and Mr Thomson was doing a speech called "Ten Tips to Make Lawyers as Popular as Doctors.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Liars, Weekend, Thinking

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Animal, Survival

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.22, University of Iowa Press

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• Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme

  Rakim

  Self Esteem, Supreme, Self

  Song: Follow the Leader

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• When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Light, Differences

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• Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.

  Elmer Kelton

  Book, Writing, Texas

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• I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.

  Barbara Mertz

  Answers, Courses, Breaths

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• Kate(Henshaw-Nuttal) was superb. The same for Stella(Damasus-Aboderin) and, of course, Jeta and Jumai(Joseph). They can work anywhere in the world. I think you can put Jeta and Stella on a plane and fly them to London or to Los Angeles to go and work.

  Nick Moran

  Thinking, World, London

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• salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Want, Miserable

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.119, Bantam

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• The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)

  William Goldman

  Husband, Land, Paris

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.36, A&C Black

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• My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, Strong, Smart

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

  James Scott Bell

  Spiritual, Romance, Historical

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