There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
~By Mark McGrath ~
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
~By David Amram ~
A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
~By Holly Near ~
By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
~By Kate Middleton ~
So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
~By Mary Garden ~
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~By Ann Landers ~
Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
~By Emma Thompson ~
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 ~
I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
~By Acker Bilk ~
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's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
~By Bill Condon ~
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 ~
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 ~
The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.
~By Roberta Williams ~
So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
~By Eli Wallach ~
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
~By Shelby Foote ~
I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
~By Harvey Martin ~
When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.
~By Al Hirt ~
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.
~By Ben Sweetland ~
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
~By Stephen Fry ~
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
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 ~
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
~By Charles Dickens ~
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.
~By Alfred Molina ~
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
~By Alice B. Toklas ~
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
~By Barry Sanders ~
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
~By Hank Stram ~
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
~By Tom T. Hall ~
As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.
~By Kelly Preston ~
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
~By Frances Farmer ~
So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.
~By Judd Gregg ~
If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.
~By Bill Joy ~
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
~By Kylie Bax ~
We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?
~By Linda McCartney ~
Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.
~By Goldie Hawn ~
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.
~By Julian May ~
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
~By Jon Postel ~
I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
~By Helmut Newton ~
I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
~By Bill McCartney ~
It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.
~By Iris Chang ~
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
~By Judith Anderson ~
Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.
~By Dave Heineman ~
It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
~By Dan Quayle ~
The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.
~By Jon Secada ~
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
~By Anita Brookner ~
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
~By Michael Schudson ~
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
~By Neil Simon ~
My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
~By Walter Hagen ~
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
~By Greg Louganis ~
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
~By Plato ~
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
~By Gay Talese ~
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
~By David Attenborough ~
I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
~By Curt Flood ~
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 ~
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
~By Ian Smith ~
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.
~By Kelly Hu ~
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
~By Bobby Riggs ~
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
~By Alan Ladd ~
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 ~
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
~By Morris West ~
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
~By Carol Burnett ~
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
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 ~
So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
~By Art Buchwald ~
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.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
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 ~
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.
~By Emanuel Ax ~
Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
~By Jack LaLanne ~
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.
~By Jill Eikenberry ~
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
~By Robert Byrd ~
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