To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. ~By Lance Henriksen ~
There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful. ~By Michael Caine ~
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. ~By Steve Prefontaine ~
My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things. ~By Kate Clinton ~
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long. ~By Marlene Dietrich ~
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. ~By Daniel Webster ~
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public. ~By Michael Schudson ~
Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful. ~By Fred Willard ~
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing. ~By Jon Postel ~
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. ~By John Naisbitt ~
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! ~By Anna Neagle ~
And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff. ~By Keith David ~
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. ~By Helen Keller ~
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. ~By David Beckham ~
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ~By Richard Powers ~
As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit. ~By Jim Ramstad ~
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do. ~By Amy Tan ~
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. ~By Lewis Carroll ~
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful. ~By Marilyn Monroe ~
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip. ~By Jackie Collins ~
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ~By Lawrence Lessig ~
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures. ~By Bryant H. McGill ~
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. ~By Michael Burgess ~
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. ~By Maria Callas ~
It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. ~By Bettie Page ~
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. ~By Fred Barnes ~
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ~By Eric Hoffer ~
I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful. ~By Christa McAuliffe ~
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ~By C. S. Lewis ~
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset. ~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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! ~By Brian Lumley ~
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. ~By Peter Tork ~
Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. ~By Helen Reddy ~
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~By Helen Keller ~
When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside. ~By Willie Aames ~
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. ~By James Madison ~
Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy. ~By Randy West ~
I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process. ~By Kristanna Loken ~
It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely. ~By Anne Parillaud ~
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ~By Mattie Stepanek ~
I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder. ~By Alicia Keys ~
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life. ~By Nana Mouskouri ~
All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film. ~By Harvey Keitel ~
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. ~By Dougray Scott ~
It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be. ~By Kristen Stewart ~
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. ~By David Bohm ~
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. ~By Hank Aaron ~
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? ~By Robert Browning ~
And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate. ~By Alex Lifeson ~
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash. ~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. ~By Jamie Farr ~
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them. ~By Dian Fossey ~
I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director. ~By Joan Severance ~
Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city. ~By Richard M. Daley ~
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden. ~By George Ball ~
Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married. ~By Natalie Wood ~
If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why. ~By Corrine Brown ~
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. ~By Henry James ~
Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended. ~By Bill Toomey ~
The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me. ~By Dennis Wilson ~
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. ~By Billy Connolly ~
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. ~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows. ~By Compay Segundo ~
Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. ~By Robert Musil ~
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. ~By George Santayana ~
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. ~By Tom T. Hall ~
I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors. ~By Connie Chung ~
I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way. ~By Paul Mazursky ~
I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center. ~By Greg Walden ~
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room. ~By Larry Hagman ~
I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. ~By Robbie Coltrane ~
I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. ~By Bette Midler ~
Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product. ~By Mike Johanns ~
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ~By Julie Harris ~
I just wondered how things were put together. ~By Claude Shannon ~
I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights. ~By Connie Chung ~
I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line! ~By Elaine Paige ~
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. ~By Joseph Kirkland ~
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. ~By Weegee ~
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. ~By Josiah Stamp ~
I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. ~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ~By John Jay Chapman ~
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me. ~By Larry Bird ~
Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character. ~By Stephen Colbert ~
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. ~By Alger Hiss ~
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. ~By Glenn Miller ~
It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return. ~By Alex Lowe ~
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ~By Grenville Kleiser ~
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! ~By Paul Lynde ~
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. ~By Len G. Murray ~
I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play. ~By Joan Sutherland ~
What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. ~By Henry Reed ~
You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean. ~By Joel Madden ~
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. ~By Edward Hopper ~
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change? ~By Chris Christie ~
People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me. ~By Michael Ironside ~
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. ~By Roger Penrose ~
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed. ~By Wim Wenders ~
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. ~By Sela Ward ~
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