Wonderful famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!
-- A. A. Milne -
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
-- A. R. Ammons -
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
-- A. R. Ammons -
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
-- Adele Faber -
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.
-- Alan Lomax -
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
-- Alan Rickman -
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
-- Alan Rickman -
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.
-- Alana Stewart -
I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day
-- Alison Krauss -
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
-- Alistair Begg -
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
-- Allison Mackie -
Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
-- Amit Ray -
The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves...
-- Anamika Mishra -
I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
-- Andie MacDowell -
You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.
-- Andrew Zuckerman -
The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is
-- Andy Warhol -
I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.
-- Angela Bassett -
We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.
-- Angie Harmon -
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.
-- Anjelica Huston -
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.
-- Ann Beattie -
The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
-- Anne Beatts -
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
-- Anne Frank -
Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.
-- Anne Hathaway -
When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.
-- Anne Lamott -
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.
-- Anthony Head -
The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
-- Arne Glimcher -
Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.
-- Arnold Mindell -
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
-- Arnold Palmer -
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
-- Art Linkletter -
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
-- Astrid Lindgren -
Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -
Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
-- Barbara Eden -
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.
-- Barbra Streisand -
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
-- Baroness Orczy -
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts
-- Beatrice Wood -
Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
-- Ben Kingsley -
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
-- Ben Kingsley -
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
-- Ben Kingsley -
Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
-- Bernadette Peters -
Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.
-- Bernard Drainville -
Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.
-- Betty Ford -
Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
-- Betty Smith -
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
-- Betty Smith -
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
-- Bhartrhari -
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
-- Bill Condon -
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
-- Bill Hybels -
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
-- Bill Monroe -
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
-- Bill Toomey -
You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.
-- Bing Crosby -
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?
-- Bo Derek -
A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.
-- Bob Barker -
Chiropractic is a wonderful means of natural healing!
-- Bob Hope -
Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
-- Bob Seger -
I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
-- Brad Henry -
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
-- Brendan Behan -
It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.
-- Brett Favre -
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
-- Brian Lumley -
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.
-- Bruce Paltrow -
Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
-- Burt Reynolds -
Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
-- Buzz Bissinger -
It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.
-- Byron Katie -
I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that's wonderful.
-- C. C. H. Pounder -
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
-- Carol Burnett -
I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long.
-- Carol Vorderman -
I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.
-- Carrie Ann Inaba -
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
-- Casey Stengel -
Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Mort(e) is wonderful and weird, never saccharine and always startling.
-- Cat Rambo -
All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.
-- Cecil Frances Alexander -
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
-- Charlaine Harris -
The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.
-- Charles de Saint-Evremond -
Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.
-- Charles Dickens
