Marvels Quotes

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.