#marvelous

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

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#drinking #first #marvelous #personality #place

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#grandchildren #husband #i #i do #marvelous

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#contain #demonstration #greater #i #impossible

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else. ↗

— Julia Child

#dry #duck #else #first #french

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he's just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn't know, but he's a pretty good fiddle player. ↗

— Guy Clark

#chris #down #ear #engineer #fiddle

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. ↗

— Guy Clark

#fiddle #good #great #great writer #guitar

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#alike #chiefly #endures #however #intensity

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless