Splendid Quotations

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god!

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Jacques Doillon wanted me to be in his film, 'La Fille Prodigue,' and there I was, expecting, for some reason, this great bearded man, when a splendid looking red-Indian style man appeared at my door. I said no to his film because I knew that if I said yes, I would run off with him.

I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

I am confident they will do a splendid job.

I do not want us to be starry-eyed about our normal way of doing legislative business. We should not suggest that the alternative to what is being proposed is some splendid mechanism of detailed scrutiny.

Well, you did a good job. You scared me half to death, but you did a splendid job.

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

He had splendid conformation-broad shoulders, white hair and erect carriage-and was beautifully turned out in an ensemble of rich brown. One was inclined to hope he would, in the end, award first prize to himself.

I saw it as a splendid opportunity to trace his intellectual development, starting with the voyage aboard the Beagle. He hit upon natural selection at a fairly early stage and his life was really one long argument about the questions it raised.

James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.

I think John is a splendid selection. He's calm, mild-mannered, and he really knows how to get things done.

We have this idealistic notion in this country that we can live in kind of splendid anonymity, we can walk around and be left alone. And this question really raises, in the post-9/11 era, the issue of whether that's really true anymore.

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation,

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, / Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West.

Who is the strong? Not he who puts to testHis sinews with the strong and proves the best;But he who dwells where weaklings congregate,And never lets his splendid strength abate.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

We have no doubt that BOCOG will deliver in a splendid way.

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at.

The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs

(We) will miss Brett's skill, his scoring touch and his fun-loving attitude, ... He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines.

Coach Just has his team in absolutely splendid condition. We're not a deep team and we're not in good enough condition.

American Splendor... that's a satirical name. People who would look at it wouldn't think my life was splendid at all. They'd think it was kind of funky.

If Japan considers us a rival, as members of the Korean team, that means we are a strong team. We will play Japan, and one of us will win. For me, it will be a splendid experience.

In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

The National Hockey League will miss Brett's skill, his scoring touch, and his fun-loving attitude. He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player, and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind. His achievements further cement the Hull family legacy of hockey greatness.

Airbus had a splendid year in 1999 in achieving record new airplane orders, no doubt about it. At the same time, you have to remember that Boeing has an incredibly strong backlog of business -- nearly 1,500 airplanes. They should be able to the deliver the majority of new airplanes in the future.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...

For England's the one land, I know, / Where men with Splendid Hearts may go; / And Cambridgeshire, of all England, / The shire for Men who Understand.

It is time that Manhattan got itself its first really splendid discount store, so the sale opens the door to the arrival of Target, or maybe even Wal-Mart.

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

It's just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport. This was the most splendid team performance,

Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

The lectures are intended to offer the students an opportunity to learn more about Hispanic countries and their splendid culture.

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Well, isn't it splendid & rather toffee?..

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

How wide the limits stand / Between a splendid and an happy land.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

What a splendid thing watercolor is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.

We have it in us to be splendid.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.