#marvelous

But enough of that--here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#hineni #marvelously-beautiful #beauty

There was a pause. Then she smiled and the corners of her mouth drooped and an almost imperceptible sway brought her closer to him, looking up into his eyes. A lump rose in Dexter's throat, and he waited breathless for the experiment, facing the unpredictable compound that would form mysteriously from the elements of their lips. Then he saw--she communicated her excitement to him, lavishly, deeply, with kisses that were not a promise but a fulfillment. They aroused in him not hunger demanding renewal but surfeit that would demand more surfeit . . . kisses that were like charity, creating want by holding back nothing at all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#marvelous #communication

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

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. ↗

— Cab Calloway

#color #difference #expect #go #hear

A pregnancy is a marvelous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat. ↗

— Paz Vega

#love #marvelous #moment #pregnancy #repeat

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women. ↗

— Paz Vega

#among #because #girl #i #i was raised

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#fortunately #great #her #i #liar

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#developed #further #heights #impossible #marvelously

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#because #does #equally #expressions #his

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#because #connected #feeling #i #marvelous