#spectacular

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#beautiful #big #countryside #fact #i

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#almost #attributable #centuries #century #distinguishes

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#cult thing #day #difficult #difficult thing #emotional

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#every #every night #had #how #i

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#both #combines #hypothetical #literal #real

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#back #been #beginning #brady #championship

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#excessive #offset #our #return #simplicity

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#bright #candidate #country #great #i

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#chess #getting #hope #i #more

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. ↗

— Gig Young

#epics #people #snoring #specialties #spectacular