You have your wonderful memories, people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember. - Joan Didion Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day. - Bethenny Frankel

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. - Neil Gaiman But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year. - Gregory Harrison I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time. - John Zimmerman

It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. - The Tin Woodsman, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pgs 72-73. - L Frank Baum I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. - Emir Kusturica

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds. - Sydney Brenner I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. - Dom Deluise

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. - Nicholas Sparks I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone. - Rosie Huntingtonwhiteley You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all? - Marian Keyes My former wife is a truly wonderful person. - Burt Lancaster I have known great things and wonderful persons...

For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed. - Nicholas Sparks Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today. - Perry Como ...I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit - David Eddings Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'...

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! - Jane Austen Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths. - L M Montgomery Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. - Frances Hodgson Burnett The truly adult view is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. - Richard Dawkins But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderfu...

It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. - The Tin Woodsman, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pgs 72-73. - L Frank Baum I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. - Emir Kusturica

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. - Jacob Bronowski Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. - Louisa May Alcott Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. - Gregg Allman Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world. - Jorge Amado Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. - Tori Amos Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. - Hans Christian Anderson What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? "When all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when all the press commentary dies away, I think it will be seen that this phenomenon was generated, in the first instance, by kids loving a book. A book went on shelves, and a few people loved it. When all of the smoke and lights die away, that's what you'll be left with....

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa. - Ernest Hemingway And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment. - Plato I need to feel the earth beneath my feet, between my toesthe splinters, the bindi-eyes, the burning sensation of hot dirt, the sting of cuts, the twigs, the bites, the heat, the discomfort, the everything. I need desperately to feel it all, so when something wonderful happens, the contrast will be so massive that I will bottle the impact and keep it for the rest of my life. - Melina Marchetta I don't have much of a life now, and from what I'm told I'll have even less where I'm going. If there'...

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. - Douglas Adams Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people. - Graham Chapman I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence. - Judy Collins And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff. - Keith David I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. - Dom Deluise I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me. - Maureen Forrester I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of...

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. - Jacob Bronowski Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. - Louisa May Alcott Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. - Gregg Allman Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world. - Jorge Amado Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. - Tori Amos Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. - Hans Christian Anderson What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? "When all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when all the press commentary dies away, I think it will be seen that this phenomenon was generated, in the first instance, by kids loving a book. A book went on shelves, and a few people loved it. When all of the smoke and lights die away, that's what you'll be left with....

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. - Alan Alda You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. - Alan Alda Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy. - Mariah Carey I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen? - Karen Allen Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. - Woody Allen To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process. - Gillian Anderson We...

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. - Nicholas Sparks You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all? - Marian Keyes But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years. - Mel Tillis