#magnificent

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#bad #beautiful #elegant #glamour #like

David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed! ↗

— Didi Conn

#been #blessed #david #devoted #father

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#because #bought #estates #families #great

'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate. ↗

— John Malkovich

#animal #beautiful #celebrate #close #magnificent

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#courage #dramatic #final #less #magnificent

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#control #extends #extension #gives #greater

After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it. ↗

— William Lucking

#again #back #broke #doing #ended

Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #humor #jace-wayland #magnificent

I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything. ↗

— Teresa Wright

#bet #born #clothes #even #glamorous

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#act #equals #fellow #fellow men #lion