#wonderful

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#challenging #extremely #four #i #i can

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#body #causes #everything #find #first

Well, I had a wonderful career. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#had #i #well #wonderful

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#acceptance #bring #build #children #class

I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#ago #brother #devastating #died #eight

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #american audience #audience #dramatically #given

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#been #find #miss #more #wonderful

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. ↗

— Alice B. Toklas

#evening #gertrude #her #most #said

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. ↗

— Peter Tork

#baseball #bat #coming #cricket #difficult

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy. ↗

— Randy West

#contestant #course #exciting #game #joy