Quotes About Wonderful

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'Look, it's not going to be scandalized. I'm not going to talk about anybody like a dog. I'm going to say the positiveness of my life, and talk about those who have contributed to the way I've been going, and that's that.'

The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.

It's something I am confident about. It gives me an adrenaline rush - who wouldn't want want to wear beautiful clothes and jewellery and look wonderful - it's a dream job for many.

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, 'Something wonderful may happen.' It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life… I merely choose to remain living out of respect for possibility. And possibility is the great good. — Frank O'Hara, Early Writing , 108-9 (1/22/49) Bookpeople (June 1977).

oh god it's so wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I began to sense the depth of my ignorance about the country I was talking about. On the road, I'd be parroting the party line, saying that America was godless and doomed. But the America I was actually experiencing (for the first time as a resident) was not doomed. It was more complicated and wonderful than I had ever imagined.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

The media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do. There are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world, and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news.

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.

My little Jasnah, insufferable and wonderful.

That music the water makes," she said. "Isn't it the most wonderful sound ever?" "The most wonderful sound ever is the lamentations of my enemies, screaming my name toward the heavens with ragged, dying voices.

Siempre fui un sueño. Un sueño maravilloso. Quizá el primero jamás concedido por una pesadilla...

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Let men cultivate the moral affections, lead manly independent lives; let them make riches the means and not the end of existence, and we shall hear no more of the commercial spirit. . . . This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.

Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.

If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

The disorientation and reorientation which comes with the initiation into any mystery is the most wonderful experience which is possible to have.

Men are lonely and out of communication with one another because all their inventions speak only of death. Death is the automaton which rules the world of activity. Death is silent, because it has no mouth. Death has never expressed anything. Death is wonderful too--after life.