“My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!” PersonsDoeEarthCertainWonderfulDirectorsMarkGreenMusicalIncludingArrangementsCherriesChoresGreen EarthWonderful Person Author:Brett Somers
“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.” Has BeensTogetherMotherCertainParentLossResultsWonderfulAmountMarriedTeenagerWorking TogetherAutonomyInvolvingWonderful Marriage Author:Jessica Valenti
“Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.” PeopleWorldWayTwoEndsMomentsCertainSongForgetWonderfulAmountUltimateMy WayFrankArmstrongKaraokeWonderful World Author:Dhani Jones
“I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that.” KnowsShouldRealMightHappensEarthCertainGivenAnswersWonderfulPlanetsPopsBillionsEstatesGalaxyPristine Author:Paul Davies
“As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.” CertainUnderstandingWonderfulGrewMetsRamaWonderful Woman Author:Frederick Lenz
“At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.” MenFirstsShowsYoungCertainStepsSunWonderfulYouthRainAspectAssumingCarefulYoung ManSoberInquiryWonderful ThingsAnticipateWashingEvery StepNewnessSun And RainSteps In Life Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.” ThinkingMindHumansAgeCertainLosesHuman BeingsNiceWonderfulAcceptanceYouthGainsFairsPeace Of MindStamina Author:Cherie Lunghi
“The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.” NeedsCertainForcePracticeMeditationAliveWonderfulBuddhismTricksConsistentMeditation Practice Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.” CertainAbilityWonderfulFoolReaderScientistNewspapersJournalistArroganceCategoriesAcademicPseudoDiscounts Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“There are times I'm completely uncomfortable with my works being performed publicly, and I haven't attended certain concerts because the prospect is akin to having a diary read on stage. But there are also situations - whether with an audience of one, or many - where the concert experience can be deeply special, and those experiences are often unpredictable, and wonderful when they occur.” CertainSituationAudienceWonderfulSpecialStageHavensUncomfortableConcertsUnpredictableDiariesAudience Of One Author:Michael Hersch
“As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHelpingRunningLastsCertainOpportunityGoneWonderfulPeriodsCharity Author:Emma Watson
“One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. There isn't much of that anymore either. There are very few poems people can recite, but there are quite a few hymns that, if you hum a few bars, people can at least come up with two verses. Many of the older hymns are very beautiful.” PeopleIfsTwoBeautifulCertainWonderfulPopulationCome UpBarsVersesHymnsVery Beautiful Author:Marilynne Robinson
“No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium. It is the photographer's job to get this medium to say what you need it to say. Because photography has a certain verisimilitude, it has gained a currency as truthful - but photographs have always been convincing lies.” NeedsJobsLyingCertainIndividualWonderfulPhotographyPhotographerPhotographMediumsTruthfulCurrencyConvincing Author:Joel Sternfeld
“All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.” PeopleWayRunningCertainHousePerfectCreativeCuttingWonderfulMy FriendsCookingMeant To BeAmbitiousMarvelousBe CreativeHousewife Author:Diana Vreeland
“It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.” WayYearsCertainGrowsWonderfulRiskInformationInternetAdvantageYears AgoEconomicsThreatNewspapersMediumsCertaintyAlternativesFabulousDominance Author:Charlie Munger
“I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.” PeopleWantKindReasonSeemsSpiritCertainActingStruggleWonderfulHeardMetsEternalEntertainmentGenerosityAttributesBeing ThereKindredEntertainment BusinessKindred Spirit Author:Lance Henriksen
“I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.” HeartWholeBodyCertainBeliefSawsWonderfulRoundsSizeSandInternalsGrainExtensionsParticlesTransparentExceedGrains Of SandContractions Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
“I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.” MatterCertainWonderfulTvsTraditionPhonesAdmireOur FamilyLoved OnesEnd TimesSpend TimeAbsentInterruptions Author:Joyce Giraud
“In the West, we got the message that it's not cool to wear ivory. It's not cool to utilize products from these wonderful species. They are not commodities. We need the whole world to join hands in getting this message now, particularly countries in Asia and certain communities that have not been educated about this. They have not had the campaigns that we had.” WorldNeedsCountryWholeHandsCertainCommunityWonderfulProductsMessagesWestSpeciesCampaignsWhole WorldEducatedCommodityAsiaIvory Author:Patrick Bergin
“Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.” GivingBookCertainTeacherWonderfulAmountDiscourse Author:Sakyong Mipham
“I'm actually really proud of how I believe people perceive me in this industry. I worked really hard to be seen in a certain way. I think I get a lot of respect for what I usually do. I find that comedic world completely fulfilling and wonderful and they're all my best friends.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayBelieveHardCertainI BelieveWonderfulIndustryProudPerceiveFulfillingMy Best FriendComedic Author:Lizzy Caplan
“It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness if you will. You don't play girl singers for girl singers. You know, there's certain things. You do play Ellington for Bobby McFerrin.” IfsKnowsWayPlayCertainGirlWonderfulSingersMusic Love Author:Carol Friedman