“The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.” WayPersonsArtEnoughArtistInterestingWonderPathWonderfulSubjectsEffectsPolicyProductsMonthsGainsOriginalsRewardsWaveTendenciesOddShockingAbsentClevernessHurdleTidal WavesAbsent Minded Author:Jacques Barzun
“Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.” FictionAliveWonderfulInternationalWaveScope Author:Colum McCann
“Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.” GivingMindIdeasCountryAgeTurnsIndividualOpinionWonderfulIntellectualDiscoveryWaveCommerceBreezeFellowship Book:The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster Source: The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster
“TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle wave, like you'll have a blissed-out, really wonderful day or two, and then, you know, then you'll have an issue. And what parenting is, is kind of earthquake.” KnowsLooksKindTwoIssuesWonderfulTvsLike YouWaveBe GoodGentleGood DayBad DayEarthquakesWonderful DayTv CommercialGood Days And Bad Days Author:Dan Savage
“The waves get high, they get low. It's been a wonderful journey, every bit of it, and that's from every praise to every criticism... To be able to able to hang around athletics for a lifetime and to meet all these wonderful people I've come in contact with, to have been around as many big events as I have, I can't imagine a day when I did not have something to make me happy about sports.” PeopleHas BeensI CanBigsAbleBitsSportsImagineWonderfulJourneyEventsLowsCriticismPraiseLifetimeWaveContactAthleticsMake Me HappyGetting HighBig EventsGet LowWonderful Journey Author:Brent Musburger