Best 1035 quotes in «wonderful quotes» category

I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

I now discover how wonderful I am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.

In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

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.

In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a wonderful charge. I love depreciation.

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.

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

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.

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

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.

I spent two weeks at the Sadhguru's [Jaggi Vasudev]. It was a wonderful experience. It was very different from what I normally do - earlier I used to do Ashtanga [yoga] all the time.

It always surprised Valkyrie whenever she realized just how close the weird and the wonderful, and the fierce and the frightening, lived to the rest pf the non-magical, mortal world.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public quite brilliantly.

I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.

I think it's a great thing that women went out in droves to see Sex and the City movie. I think it's wonderful and I think women have always shown they're looking both to be entertained and challenged in a theatre. I don't think women are afraid of movies that make them think; make them feel sad. The movies that I've been associated with are not exactly Sex and the City but women are leading the way to the theatre on those. They used to call it a date movie where the girl gets to choose.

I think it's a wonderful time for a woman.

I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives and that’s wonderful.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

It is easier to be gay at this very moment than it was five minutes ago. It is just constantly getting better, and it's wonderful.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often have between each other. It is a good fortune, when you can adore, when you can love, when you can find something so magnificent.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.