Marvel Quotes

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

Women, Men, History

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Night, Stars, Thousand

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

Great, God, Him

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Rush Limbaugh

Work, Stupid, Why

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Henry Miller

Men, Direction, Either

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Elie Wiesel

Best, Remember, Desire

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran

Nothing, Democracy, Nation

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
Hedy Lamarr

Good, Woman, Her

Death is an absolute marvel.
William Shatner

Death, Absolute

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
Lawrence Welk

Life, Blessings, Last

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus

Real, Between, Difference

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Ang Lee

Character, Monster, Superhero

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
Rob Walton

Done, Old, Comic

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
Toni Morrison

Words, After, Choice

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
Susan Orlean

Time, Technology, Sometimes

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
Phillips Brooks

May, Walk, Feet

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
J. Michael Straczynski

Success, Book, Decision

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
Andrew Cuomo

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
Helen Reddy

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Joan of Arc

True, End, Days

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'
Jane Pauley

Person, Sometimes, Once

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.
Chris Hemsworth

Work, Character, Around

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
Katherine Mansfield

Life, Habit, Becomes

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Herman Hesse

Life, Religion, Wisdom

The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.
Frank Miller

Love, Time, Real

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
James Anthony Froude

Life, Society, Human

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
Ella Maillart

Life, Blessed, Sense

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
Victor Garber

Life, Done, Find

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.
Todd McFarlane

Life, Time, Trying

I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.
Toby Jones

Universe, Rather, Lucky

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