#marvel

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

#could #else #i #i see #marvellous

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#deals #depending #done #flip #get

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. ↗

— David Hockney

#does #east #glaciers #hills #just

I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#cinema #continents #cultures #diverse #greatest

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. ↗

— Hazel Scott

#children #explain #know #marvelous #marvelous thing

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed! ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#marveling #nature #self #wonders #nature

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

#family #formidable #friends #friends and family #full

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

— Aristotle

#all things #marvelous #something #things

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

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#arrogance #british #effectual #makes #marvelous

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#failure #forced #like #live #living