Wonderful Quotes - Page 31

• I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Block, Past

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• We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Flower, Humility

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• It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, America

  George Mikes (1959). “How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained”

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• It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Average

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• Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

  Erma Bombeck

  Daughter, Humorous, Phones

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.95, Fawcett

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• The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Animal, Design

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• To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences". Book by Thomas Huxley (p. 29), 1854.

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• She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Blow, Hair, Political

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• In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

  Tim Allen

  Girl, Father, Boys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Making Changes

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• All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.

  Judith Anderson

  Bay Area, Spirit, Environment

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  Barbara Hershey

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.

  James Hetfield

  Keys, Metallica, Rings

  "The Hot Seat: James Hetfield". TimeOut interview, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

  David Crosby

  Thinking, People, Important

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• Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

  Graham Chapman

  People, Worry, Doe

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• The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

  Carson McCullers

  Squares, Roots, And Love

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• Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Beautiful, Cutting, People

  "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.

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• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

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• I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

  Eugenio Montale

  Doors, Terrible, Enigma

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• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  Fannie Flagg

  Water, Suffering, Natural Instinct

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• One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

  Diane Wakoski

  Book, Numbers, Long

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

  Emily Carr

  Canada, Feels, Rugged

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?

  Larry Kramer

  Pride, Gay, Thinking

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

  Brett Favre

  Careers, Asks

  "It’s official: Favre retires (again)". www.denverpost.com. February 11, 2009.

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• It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.

  Philip Johnson

  Country, Nice, Glasses

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