Quotes on the topic: Marvelous


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We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.


Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.


I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.


There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.


I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.


Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.


I think I did marry a marvelous man.


In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.


The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.


East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.


In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.


There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.


I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.


Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.


Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.


To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.


I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.


We had some marvelous outtakes, but the producer had destroyed them all.


I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.


Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.