Best 1035 quotes in «wonderful quotes» category

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when we get there.

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.

We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gaddafi was our Hitler.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Well, delusions are a wonderful thing, and they keep you company, too.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful.

We need to think less NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), and more SWIMBY (Something Wonderful In My Back Yard)

We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

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!

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

What is wonderful to see is how incredibly affectionate and physically affectionate Nancy Reagan was, you know? She was so on her guard, she was threatened by just about everybody.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

What's wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways. Each age will have its own resonance with Lord of the Rings.

Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get everyone to read it. I will get my mom to read it, I will get my friends to read it, I'll get the person doing my manicure to read it. I'm someone who really needs to talk things through. And then, obviously, I have a wonderful manager and agents, and I listen very carefully to what they have to say as well.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

When I talk with women who have had wonderful experiences in the military it's because their commanders treated them with respect and dignity and gave them equality with their peers that was unparalleled in their lives.

When I was 16 I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh how wonderful, I'm ready.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.