Top 45 Marvellous Quotes

Professor Tite has played a big role in the Selecao’s ascent. He’s a brilliant coach, with a unique way of working, but he’s also a marvellous person. He makes everyone feel at ease.

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.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I’d eat ten daily – marvellous.

My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who’s a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator – we were the only two people in there – and she’s been one of my very dearest friends since.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Being pregnant is a marvellous experience. Before, I was afraid about the idea of giving birth, but now, I’m really looking forward to it.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone’s so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren’t into the cooking malarkey, who still don’t know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

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.

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

If you ever ask me what my all-time dream character is, my answer will be Mia Tansen, the great composer-musician in Hindustani classical music. And ideally, the film should be directed by a person like Bhansali who is a great director and has a marvellous sense of classical music.

When I think of all the Hamlets I’ve seen, there’s been a load of different styles, some marvellous. You like the Hamlet you saw when you were the right age to think you could be Hamlet.

I had a lot of teachers. When I think about my upbringing I feel like the most fortunate person. It was a marvellous era for drummers.

Whenever I’m in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my childhood – as do other family members.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn’t have to paint at all.

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.

Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn’t.

Happiness is marvellous. I love it when Im happy, but Im not always happy.

An Ibra-Messi tandem would have been marvellous, but history decided otherwise.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

How marvellous it is to enjoy Messi. No one can touch his numbers, and it is impossible for anyone to do what he has done apart from him.

All-powerful is a woman who doesn’t need to be beautiful, but she has so much attitude that she is marvellous, she is powerful.

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.

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.

Football is marvellous and there are countless ways to play and to win.

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.

I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.

Since I used to be busy with my work, it was just Gauri who would look after both the children. She has been a marvellous mother.

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.

I think an individual’s mind is a marvellous thing. I truly believe that if your mind is strong, your body tries hard to keep pace with it.

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.

Milan is marvellous, picturesque, and full of elegance.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Messi is incredible and his history in football is marvellous.

It’s marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I’m going to photograph everything, everything!

I know you’ve been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

First in France, first in Romania – by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.

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.

One of Kuhn’s marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

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?’

How do I feel about being called a national treasure? I think it’s marvellous if that’s people’s opinion. But I’d rather have the money than the label.

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.

‘Skyfall’ was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.