Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
~By Marvin Harris ~
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
~By Dom DeLuise ~
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 ~
It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.
~By Roger Moore ~
I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?
~By Joyce Maynard ~
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.
~By Bob Hope ~
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
~By Stephen LaBerge ~
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
~By Janet Flanner ~
Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
~By Helen Reddy ~
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
~By Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
~By Joseph Addison ~
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
~By William Faulkner ~
But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
~By James Wolfensohn ~
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 ~
Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.
~By Hermione Gingold ~
Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.
~By Timothy Findley ~
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
~By Dan Quayle ~
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
~By Phyllis Battelle ~
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
~By Barry Sanders ~
I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
~By Roger Daltrey ~
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
~By Bill Moyers ~
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
~By Lara Flynn Boyle ~
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
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 ~
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.
~By Brooke Burke ~
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.
~By Amitabh Bachchan ~
I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
~By Tab Hunter ~
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
~By Anne Perry ~
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
~By Prince Charles ~
Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.
~By Jamie Farr ~
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.
~By Mary Grandpre ~
Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
~By Gay Talese ~
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.
~By Eric Brown ~
It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!
~By Catherine Crier ~
I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.
~By Nuno Bettencourt ~
It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience.
~By Andrew McCarthy ~
The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.
~By Margot Kidder ~
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
~By Jeb Bush ~
Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful!
~By David Selby ~
Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?
~By Phil Ochs ~
Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
~By Gene Krupa ~
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 ~
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
~By Carson McCullers ~
For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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 ~
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
~By David Amram ~
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 ~
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
~By Chevy Chase ~
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 think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.
~By Donald O'Connor ~
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
~By Susan Collins ~
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
~By Sydney Brenner ~
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 ~
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
~By Norman Douglas ~
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
~By Edward Bond ~
And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
~By Rube Goldberg ~
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.
~By Will Friedle ~
Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
~By Lawrence Halprin ~
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.
~By Chick Corea ~
While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
~By Thomas Mann ~
I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.
~By George A. Romero ~
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
~By David Rockefeller ~
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.
~By Dwayne Hickman ~
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
~By William Cowper ~
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
~By Helen Frankenthaler ~
Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
~By Greta Garbo ~
Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
~By Marie Windsor ~
Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
~By Arthur Sullivan ~
I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
~By Abbey Lincoln ~
Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.
~By Burt Reynolds ~
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
~By Steven Levy ~
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
~By Roma Downey ~
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
~By Henry Flynt ~
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
~By Robert Caro ~
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