Breathtaking famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
-- Alan Moore

#Ideas #Fabulous #Breathtaking
breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
-- David Levithan

#Kissing #Breathtaking #Surrender
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
-- Diane Arbus

#Happiness #War #Breathtaking
The most breathtaking thing about being in space is actually looking back at the Earth.
-- Richard Branson

#Space #Earth #Breathtaking
What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity.
-- Thrity Umrigar

#Heartbreaking #Injustice #Breathtaking
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
-- William Ellery Channing

#Inspiring #Character #Breathtaking
Everyone knows that Theodore Roosevelt was able to wring so much life out of each day, every hour, every minute. And yet, when one is immersed in a detailed, retrospective review of his life, his intense living, his vigor di vita, is nonetheless breathtaking.
-- James M Strock

#Breathtaking #Intense #Hours
There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.
-- Bill Henson

#Rooms #Architecture #Breathtaking

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them-- for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity -- went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
The interior of a teenagerâ€™s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.
I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird.