#marvel

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. ↗

— Al Purdy

#beast #bird #flowers #man #marvel

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

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

— Alan Young

#had #marvelous #producer #some #them

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#city #life #marvelous #notice #our

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

#divine #glories #like #marvellous #melody

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#getting #gig #jazz #jazz musician #life

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

— E. M. Forster

#italians #land #love #marvellous #more

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— Ellen G. White

#before #between #closely #counterfeit #delusion

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#historic #home #marvelous #name #our