#wonderful

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#accommodate #edges #give #group #most

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. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#funny #humor #just #made #melancholy

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#reading #sexy #smell #wonderful #love

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#dissing #everyone #job #like #messing

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#everybody #i #i think #life #little

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. ↗

— Peter Agre

#boy scout #brother #cousins #dairy #farms

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing. ↗

— Joan Allen

#feeling #great #great feeling #i #intoxicating

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers. ↗

— Tim Allen

#around #calm #calm down #challenging #down

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#benefits #carry #forgive #forgiven #great

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#bird #closest #come #flying #machines