Wonderful Quotes - Page 23

• We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Literature, Sometimes, Fairy

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• That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

  Roberta Flack

  Honesty, Quality, Performances

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• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  Karen Hughes

  Fun, Humor, President

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• Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

  Jack Vance

  Wild Imagination, Imagination, Tales

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• George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

  Peter Mayhew

  Character, Imagination, Might

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• My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

  Kim Wilde

  Marriage, Years, Long

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• There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

  Richard G. Scott

  Marriage, Powerful, Two

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• I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

  Kelly Preston

  Marriage, Kids, Two

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• And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Opportunity, Modern, Structure

  Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  Sam Waterston

  Success, Father, Thinking

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• I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Technology, Thinking

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• Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Pigs, Creatures

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• I worked with some wonderful people, tried my best and I feel comfortable.

  Janet Reno

  Hypnosis, People, Feels

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• The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

  Kofi Annan

  Work, Reform, Able

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• A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

  George Eliot

  Love, Two, Long

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• In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Thinking, Innovation, Example

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• The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth." But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations--to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Math, Simple

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat”, p.45, Basic Books

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• And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

  Doris Lessing

  Moving, Aging, Invisible

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border , I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.

  Gladys Aylward

  Christian, Believe, Journey

  "Gladys Aylward, One of the Undefeated: The Story of Gladys Aylward as Told by Her to R.O. Latham".

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• As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Children, Kids, Moon

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• Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

  John Arlott

  Umpires, Bird, Stopping

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• The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

  Adam Weishaupt

  Christian, Believe, Men

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

  James Denney

  Clever, Church, Christ

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• We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, Selfish, Thinking

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• In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one. After all, the general population pictures vaccines as one of modern medicine's best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from the scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox.

  Richard Pitcairn

  Names, Ideas, Vaccines

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