We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.
Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.
The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.
To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task. . . tremendous and foolish and human.
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
I see in Nature a magnificent structure. . . that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.
I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.
And Chris Benoit, as magnificent as he looks, is not medically cleared yet.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.