Spectacular Quotes

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

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

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

Rawhide Down is full of spectacular, original reporting.

Every song will be a video. Its going to be very spectacular.

I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders.

To be only spectacular should be 5 or 10 percent of cinema.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.

I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular!

Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.

I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.

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

People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

My taste tends to skew a little bit towards the more feminine. Monique Lhuillier, Oscar de la Renta. Some of his wedding dresses in particular have been spectacular.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.

Your life shouldn't be anything short of spectacular.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

I think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American people.

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.