#wonder

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#am #drawing #england #ever #gardener

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#ghastly #invention #itself #lovely #some

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. ↗

— Steven Wright

#clothes #escalator #girl #i #met

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#depths #each #experienced #feel #heart

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#civilians #combat #get #healthy #healthy way

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#conan #fantasy #kingdoms #wonder #age

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#beauty #music #wonder #art

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. ↗

— Robert Henri

#does #ever #ground #growing #methods

[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea. ↗

— Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway

#space-and-cosmos #wonder #beauty

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load. ↗

— John Piper

#optimism-q #wonder #beauty