Wonderful Quotes - Page 25

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Character

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

  Raymond Chandler

  Crazy, Hollywood, Sober

  "Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age". Book by Paul Zollo, 2002.

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• To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Vulgar

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

  Regina Spektor

  Hate, Magic, Answers

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

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• I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all.

  John Dos Passos

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?

  Christiaan Huygens

  Stars, Distance, Animal

  "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 2, pp. 150-151, as quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1695.

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• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Believe, Europe

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• I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Men, Two

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.727, VM eBooks

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• I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

  Helmut Newton

  Girl, Years, Lasts

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• One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Information, Use

  "The Road Ahead". Book by Book by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson, 1995.

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• Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Loss, Yoke

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1419, Barbour Publishing

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• You are all great, and everything about your company is wonderful!

  Carlos Newton

  Company

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• I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Relationship With God, Amazing Relationship

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• Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Views, Ulcers

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• I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Flower, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.353

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• This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.

  Robert L. Park

  Years, Progress, Together

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• It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Summer, Weed, Believe

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• It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Latin, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, Рипол Классик

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• I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Television, Littles, Empty

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• Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

  Hugh Nibley

  People, Leaving, Mind

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Play, Promise, Prisoner

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, Candlewick Press

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• I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.

  Mindy Grossman

  Heart, Thinking, Shopping

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• A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

  W. G. Sebald

  Fearless, Stories, Comedy

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• I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

  David Rockefeller

  Wonderful Life, I Can

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

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• Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  World, Pearls, Canada

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