Quotes of: Wonderful-place Keyword

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.

Natalie du Toit

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

Luciano Pavarotti

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

Edith Head

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

Pierce Brosnan

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Catherine Deneuve

It was only after my head started reeling and my body started weaving and I tumbled into bed that I'd hear that soothing voice singing...The reverbations of that voice wandered sweetly, softly, working like a massage on the area of my heart that was ...

Asleep

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of proper place names] (like the extermi...

The Practice of Everyday Life

Ever since, New York has existed for me simultaneously as a map to be learned and a place to aspire too--a city of things and a city of signs, the place I actually am and the place I would like to be even when I am here. As a kid, I grasped that the ...

Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

No matter how much the wise man travels, he always lives in the same place.

Chinese

Don't expect to be offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor.

Ghanaian

Do not judge your fellow man until you have stood in his place.

Hebrew

It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions. The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted her clothing like the flaps of a tent, and sound...

Evil Returns

I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll tell these things to God, and he'll laugh, I think and he'll remind me of the parts I forgot, the parts that were his...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided tha...

A Man Without a Country

She asked another question: "What does it matter if the rhinos die out? Is it really important that they are saved?" This would normally have riled me... but I had comes to think of her as Dr. Spock form Star Trek - an emotionless, purely logical cre...

Peter Allison

It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated ...

Agents of Light and Darkness

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to...

The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the proje...

Mortal Leap

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right pla...

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars