Fabulous Quotes - Page 8

• How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Lying, Dust, Atheism

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• Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Prayer, Water

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor

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• You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

  Cat Deeley

  Believe, Two, Different

  "Nerdy but nice" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• You may wonder: how do I overcome the common 'Cute/Insane Conundrum,' as it occurs in men ... Yes, it's a fact - any man who seems cute, fabulous, and incredible to you will, of course, turn out to be insane.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Cute, Men, Dating

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• Here's what a lot of the media want us to believe: One day, we'll get everything right about our appearance. Our hair will look fabulous, our skin will be smooth and crease-free, men will have perfect six-pack abs and we'll be three sizes smaller than we are now. We'll look so good we'll have made over not just our looks but our lives.

  Myrna Blyth

  Believe, Men, Hair

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• I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.

  Angie Harmon

  People, Laughing, Want

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• You often hear this about directors, how its like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than youre supposed to have.

  William Sadler

  Fun, Kids, Toys

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Sadler Talks Roadracers Blu-ray". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  Bette Midler

  War, Thinking, Two

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• the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Baby, Food

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• So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

  RuPaul

  People, Next, Failing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.

  Anna Lappe

  Book, Thinking, Impact

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me what I was already suspecting, that she is extremely interesting. I have never seen a picture of her that conveys all of her complexity. That would be a fabulous challenge, to find that in a photograph.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Interesting, Challenges, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

  Richie Benaud

  Bowling, Cricket, Shane

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• I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

  Douglas Adams

  Evening, Apocalypse, I Can

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.119, Pan Macmillan

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• There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even devilish. Barbapoppa was the most fabulous first animal I was to have and challenged me much.

  Chantal Sutherland

  Animal, Age, Firsts

  "Inside the Jockeys' Room with Gary and Chantal". America's Best Racing Interview, www.americasbestracing.net. January 24, 2014.

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• The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.

  Alex Gibney

  Lying, Facts, Internet

  Source: collider.com

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• It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.

  Michael Kors

  Coffee, Tired, People

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks.

  Mike Royer

  Dc Comics, Proud, Connections

  "HomeInterviews Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• ... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Organization, Succeed

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• I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.

  Amy Poehler

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

  Mason Cooley

  Worry, Ordinary, Watches

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• it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

  Judith Martin

  People, Would Be, Racist

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• The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Greatness, Yesterday

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• The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

  Douglas Adams

  Mean, Opportunity, Years

  Richard Dawkins' Eulogy for Douglas Adams at Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, www.edge.org. September 17, 2001.

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• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  Om Puri

  Mind, Would Be, Way

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