Magnificent Quotes
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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
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I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.
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Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of Malcolm X, but the two men had very different motives in coming together.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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Anyone that has been lucky enough to go to the races and witness the magnificent spectacle of a competitive race will know how people like me can instantly fall in love with the power and beauty of race horses in full gallop.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...
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New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.
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Doing 'Magnificent Seven' was a no-brainer.
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The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.
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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.
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God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.
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I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
