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I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life. -- Olivia Newton-John
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. -- Dusty Springfield
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. -- E. M. Forster
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? -- Stendhal
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. -- Christopher Columbus
Marvellous mercies and infinite love. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Nobody can beat the Marvellous one! -- Marc Mero
Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it. -- Albert Einstein
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13 -- L. Frank Baum
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject. -- Michel de Montaigne
You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous. -- Robert Smith
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! -- Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful -- Ruud van Nistelrooy
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. -- Alberto Giacometti
I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion? -- Catherine Webb
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. -- Alberto Giacometti
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. -- James Henry Breasted
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous. -- Paul Merton
How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others! -- Pope Francis
The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet. -- Jonathan Raban
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre. -- George Edward Woodberry
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. -- Antonio Machado
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible. -- John Berger
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. -- Morton Feldman
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. -- Francesca Annis
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word. -- Maeve Binchy
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar. -- A. E. Housman
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. -- J. Reuben Clark
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' -- Albert Finney
Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity. -- Celia Imrie
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics. -- Annie Besant
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway. -- Lewis Thomas
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind? -- Alan Moore
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive. -- Hokusai
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love. -- Katherine Mansfield
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it. -- Dalai Lama
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached. -- Swami Vivekananda
The unknown always passes for the marvellous. -- Tacitus
We ought to live in the marvellous light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Glory to God, He has done marvellous deeds. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is. -- Diana Athill
God has called us out of darkness into His marvellous light. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. -- Moliere
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? -- Jules Verne
We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. -- Edward Young
I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face. -- William Shakespeare
I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous. -- Paz Vega
What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? -- Jonathan Stroud
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Steig Larsson
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. -- Angela Carter
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. -- John Dominic Crossan
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man. -- Marya Mannes
When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything. -- David Hockney
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. -- Swami Vivekananda
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes. -- Dinah Sheridan
Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise. -- John Brunner
These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier . -- Max Robertson
Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous. -- Boy George
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. -- James Russell Lowell
The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism. -- Elie Wiesel
I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now... -- John Lydon
Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is! -- Peter Cundall
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart. -- Antonio Machado
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest. -- Anton Chekhov
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. -- Paul Twitchell
Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar. -- Jean Ingelow
And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world. -- C.P. Cavafy
The heavens declare the glory of God.The heavens declare the majesty King.The heavens declare the marvellous Lord.The heavens declare the mighty Saviour. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man. -- Frederic Chopin
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment. -- Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all about that. -- Stuart Adamson
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart -- Oscar Wilde
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken. -- Terry Pratchett
The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world. -- Anthony Trollope
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz -- Ian Hislop
Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous. -- Richie Benaud
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism. -- Claude Bernard
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century! -- David Bronstein
It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties. -- Margaret Sanger
My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena. -- Victoria Wood
For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous. -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources. -- Marshall McLuhan
our acquaintances"?not our friends"?are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency. -- Malcolm Gladwell
I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did. -- Miranda Hart
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country -- Morton Feldman
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible. -- Ambrose Bierce
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black. -- Lorraine Hansberry
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there. -- Margot Asquith
I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous. -- Kabir Bedi
Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is marvellous for us all. I have said that after all I have suffered, every time I walk into a ground to play is a victory for me, so this is just wonderful -- Ronaldo
And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things. -- Paracelsus
A woman who feels ugly can go to the best party and have a terrible time, but a woman who likes the way she looks can go to a funeral and have a marvellous time. -- Britney Spears
Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It's become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, "?marvellous'. -- Richie Benaud

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