Words matter. These are the best Wonderful Thing Quotes from famous people such as Albert Einstein, Gene Wilder, Timothy Noah, Gary Ross, Ana Tijoux, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it’s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they’re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you’re in trouble. Just do what you love. That’s all I want to do.
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don’t acquire wisdom from it.
I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you’re getting a finished product at the end of the day. You’re communicating directly with the reader.
.I think daily life is the most beautiful and wonderful thing that anyone can have.
The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it’s a purely empirical art form. It’s all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.
A computer is a wonderful thing, but it’s cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.
I’ve had to listen to candidates tell me they are the most wonderful thing since the invention of sliced bread, and it bores me to death. It also makes me doubt that they are actually any good at all – plus it’s an attitude that would never fly in the culture I’ve created in my company.
Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we’ve been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that’s just an athlete’s story.
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there’s nobody there to forgive them.
I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
To put it simply – you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don’t buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
It’s a wonderful thing to have life and to look at all this creation and say thank you. I even say it on stage.
I’ve always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you’re in your 40s and you’re kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.
I think examples of free market transactions between peaceful people using Bitcoin and the Internet, I think it’s a wonderful thing. It’s going to make the world a better place.
Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don’t work as well, you can’t run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can’t lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn’t feel any different.
People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it’s flattering. It’s a wonderful thing.
It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist – a wonderful thing for a writer.
To influence people to do something they love, it’s a wonderful thing.
Now, it’s not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a husband; I have a life; I have friends who I’ve met through this. It’s who I am.
Gosh, I think faith is a wonderful thing. And I even think religion’s a wonderful thing. I know a lot of people want to say, ‘Religion’s the only reason that man has had any trouble at all,’ but you know what? World War I and World War II were not fought because of religious reasons.
In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus – a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee’s raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.
The wonderful thing about ‘Star Trek’ is that they’re very open to suggestions for scripts and story ideas from the viewers. That’s really unique.
The wonderful thing with some of the things I’ve done – most of them, really – is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!
To me, the money is – it’s certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you’re able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
That’s the wonderful thing about acting – you play a role. It’s about humanity, rather than labeling.
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.
If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
Retirement’s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it’s time to enjoy my retirement.
A good choreographer is one that’s going to collaborate, teach, guide – everything. The wonderful thing on ‘Brotherhood of the Wolf’ was that we had Philip Kwok – he choreographed John Woo’s ‘Hard Boiled,’ and in the ’70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.
I really love the ’90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
It’s a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It’s what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It’s always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it’s to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that’s a wonderful thing.
Retiring from international football was a personal decision, and I was very sure about what I was doing. I played for my country for more than ten years, and there were highs and lows. It was a fantastic experience, though, and the most wonderful thing is that it ended well.
There’s nothing wrong with being proud of who you are. It’s a wonderful thing.
It’s a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras – I’ve played with many – but it’s really special in Israel because you have so many great musicians.
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.
I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
The idea that women are actually getting some jobs – whoopee. I can’t say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys’ show. But I think it’s a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.
The NFL has done a great job of promoting the popularity of the game. There now are youth leagues in Puerto Rico and Mexico. You’re starting to see more and more young men with Hispanic surnames come into the NFL and that’s a wonderful thing.
There was a little of this, ‘Oh, you’re such a sweet girl!’ That’s a wonderful thing to have in life; I don’t mind it at all for life. But I remember, the first role I was ever cast in as a not-so-sweet-girl, I was so happy.
The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time.
We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.