Wonderful Quotes

1. "I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift."
Author: Andie MacDowell

2. "The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet."
Author: Antonia Michaelis

3. "Once you start in with sex,' she replied slowly, 'it's hard to stop. It gets to be something you find it difficult to do without.''It's that good, huh?' Perhaps once they got past their eighteenth year, boy's hands and mouths no longer felt so damp.'Well,' she continued, choosing her words with care, 'not necessarily at first. You see, I think you need a lover you're really fond of, and one who's very fond of you. Because, well ... in the beginning it takes a certain amount of patience. But then, once you know what you're doing, it's wonderful. Really, it's the best thing in the world. So you don't want to give it up. That's why I think it's best to wait until you're married to get started."
Author: Barbara Cohen

4. "We all go through that. Everyone's feeling a little out of sorts. No one knows exactly where he stands. Work is a wonderful way of putting you on your feet again, old boy"
Author: Colette

5. "But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job."
Author: Donald Sutherland

6. "Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess."
Author: Elizabeth Hoyt

7. "The way you start writing is by writing. Over and over again I have proven this to myself but I always forget it the next time. I always believe that I will never write again. The first time I finished a book a painter was visiting me. Her name is Ginny Stanford and her wonderful paintings have been the covers for nine of my books.'I'll never write again,' I told her ... 'That's it ... It's over. It was great while it lasted, but now it's done.'That afternoon she made me a wonderful drawing of a ship sinking in the waves of the sea. 'I'll never write again,' it said on the bottom of the picture. 'September, 1981."
Author: Ellen Gilchrist

8. "Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile."
Author: Ellen Ochoa

9. "And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing."
Author: Haruki Murakami

10. "This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used."
Author: Henry David Thoreau

11. "God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those wonderful things he put in you out of you. When He begins, do not resist!"
Author: Israelmore Ayivor

12. "You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble."
Author: Janet Echelman

13. "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."
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

14. "I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!"
Author: Jeanette MacDonald

15. "The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me."
Author: Jeff Lindsay

16. "I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships."
Author: Jennifer Beals

17. "To us and a wonderful evening of love making."
Author: Joe Dunthorne

18. "Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!"
Author: Joe McNally

19. "All things bright and beautiful,All creatures great and small,All things wise and wonderful,The Lord God made them all."
Author: John Piper

20. "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."
Author: Joseph Conrad

21. "She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind."
Author: Joshua Ferris

22. "I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation."
Author: Judy Collins

23. "The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship."
Author: Julian Barnes

24. "I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?"
Author: Karen Allen

25. "By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made."
Author: Kate Middleton

26. "The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be part of it."
Author: Kiran Desai

27. "I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life."
Author: Leni Riefenstahl

28. "War is wonderful. They'll never stamp it out. It's one of the few times people can act their best. It's so economical in terms of gesture and motion, every single gesture is precise, every effort is at its maximum. Nobody goofs off. Everybody is responsible for his brother."
Author: Leonard Cohen

29. "I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."
Author: Leslie Easterbrook

30. "…growing pale and sober with the thought that her fate was soon to be decided; for, like all young people, she was sure that her whole life could be settled by one human creature, quite forgetting how wonderfully Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessing."
Author: Louisa May Alcott

31. "Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain."
Author: Lyall Watson

32. "Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy."
Author: Mariah Carey

33. "I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it."
Author: Marianne Faithfull

34. "The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful thing. But, when you mention two guys in love, they forget all that and freak out."
Author: Mark A. Roeder

35. "I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week."
Author: Mickey Sumner

36. "I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be."
Author: Nicholas Sparks

37. "Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise."
Author: Osayi Osar Emokpae

38. "My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."
Author: Peter Agre

39. "For people to come to you and say, 'Would you like to be a part of our show?' after years of 'Please tell me I'm good enough,'... I can't tell you how wonderful it feels."
Author: Rebecca Mader

40. "Most aren't trying to kill you, unfortunately. They're trying to bed you, mistress.""Why?""Probably because of the prophecy," said Nandi."Prophecy," I said dryly. "Wonderful. Now there's a prophecy.""Mistress," she said hastily, "had you asked us if there was a prophecy-""Yeah, yeah. I know. What's this one say? That I'm a good lay?"
Author: Richelle Mead

41. "Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants.""Excuse me."
Author: Rick Riordan

42. "Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis and Dionysus. Love, revenge, wine. Very helpful."
Author: Rick Riordan

43. "When a man's busy, why, leisureStrikes him as wonderful pleasure:‘Faith, and at leisure once is he?Straightway he wants to be busy."
Author: Robert Browning

44. "I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time."
Author: Roddy McDowall

45. "It's an awe-filled, wonderful, terrifying act to have a child, for you suddenly wear your heart on the outside of your body. You risk a little more each day as he wanders from your arms into the world."
Author: Susan May Warren

46. "Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards."
Author: Terry Goodkind

47. "It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane."
Author: Terry Pratchett

48. "It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!"
Author: Thomas Watson

49. "Amelia and I were at the age where wonderful things sometimes still did happen, but far less often than they used to."
Author: Tiffany Baker

50. "The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family."
Author: William Jones

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