That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to

Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life… It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

Panama’s a really wonderful country. There’s obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it’s just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

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

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.

I always find it often useful and wonderful that how when you are putting it down on paper with a clear statement of the case, it turns out to be the most useful one every time.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing

He studied the nail-formation, and prodded the finger-tips, now sharply, and again softly, gauging the nerve-sensations produced. It fascinated him, and he grew suddenly fond of this subtle flesh of his that worked so beautifully and smoothly and delicately. Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realization would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat…

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

Ginsberg’s Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there’s also something wonderful about being secure.

The world of literature is a world of wonder, a universe of imagination waiting to be explored

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true That who is what and what is who.” – Winnie-the-Pooh

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes

I wonder what Piglet is doing,” thought Pooh. “I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

A gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it’s ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America’s story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood

I need to lose some weight. I’m getting really fat. But I’m getting older, and I just can’t stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.

I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.

Athletics: it’s a wonderful thing, it’s a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it’s incredibly exciting.

Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life’s experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

It is very beautiful over there

I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I’m alive and I’m living and I’m experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

Being an actor is wonderful and it’s a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can’t fit this or that. It’s important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on.

Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things, it enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback and things like that.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me  Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful  that’s what matters to me.

I got to tell you a little something about yourself You’re wonderful, flawless, you a sexy lady

Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don’t know what to do with it.

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I’ve been such a big fan of his acting.

If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s wonderful guidance.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination and a little dough.

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish’? Surely that precious word, ‘Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely’ and that solemn promise, ‘Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,’ are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

The fact that a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing. He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it.

So perished the hope founded on the wonderful being who thus ceased to be. In the study room to which he was never to return, the water buttercups he had brought from the country were still fresh.

There is nothing more wonderful than being a scientist, nowhere I would rather be than in my lab, staining up my clothes and getting paid to play.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual. It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.

Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic – but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin – on the surface – without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

If I had read all this in a book, Harry, I think I would have wept over it. Somehow, now that it has happened actually, and to me, it seems far too wonderful for tears.

Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth’s passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world. No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

Philosophy begins with wonder

Nothing unexpected or wonderful is likely to happen if you have an itinerary in Paris filled with the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower

There are so many wonderful places. There are many parts of Asia, Africa, South America, so sooner or later I’ll end up everywhere, I’m sure

God willing I would like to keep on going. I listened to [blues singer] Alberta Hunter in New York a few years ago. She was eighty-two at the time and it was really wonderful to hear the experience in this woman’s voice. You knew that she knew what she was talking about and when she said ‘God bless you’ at the end of her set, you really did feel blessed.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he’s referring to

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others

A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Righteous women in their circle of influence,
beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

Truly my body and don’t build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died

I think my novel, ‘Walden Two,’ has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee, they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense

Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have

Plodding wins the race

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be

Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Once a wolf, always a wolf

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that’s, of course, wonderful. I’m really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.

The wisest of the wise may err

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing – soften their roughest edges – to accommodate themselves toward a group response.