Wonderful Quotes

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

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

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

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.

Greenland is a wonderful country.

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.

When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

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.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

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.

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.

I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

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.'

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

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!

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

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.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

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

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.