Marvellous Quotes

It`s a marvellous occasion. We`re the only country in the world to honour the common man. (On being awarded the CBE)

"I don`t smoke now, which is marvellous. My only addictions are caffeine and sugar."

There was a time when you were supposed to question everything the director said, to create some kind of conflict, out of which creativity would be born. But I love it when they tell you what to do, you know: Start there, walk over there, say the line and I`ll shout: Cut!" I think it`s groovy. When we were filming with Steven Poliakoff, his first note to me - he prefaced it with: "That was marvellous", which is always a good start - anyway, his note was: "Don`t wiggle your eyes about so much," and you know, my heart leapt. Because I know that. I know how to not make my eyes wiggle about."

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.

It`s a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we`ve had. We`re very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don`t sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, `How do I start? Where do I start?`

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

It`s marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?