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Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.
will arnett— "Will Arnett: The TV Squad Interview," TV Squad (August 2, 2006)
It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.
halle berry— On being pregnant with her first child — reported in Lawrie Masterson (October 21, 2007) "Yummy working mummy", Sunday Herald Sun, Section: IE, p. 3.
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
vanna bonta— Vanna Bonta on the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. BonNova | X PRIZE Foundation official
I'm looking forward to working with Nick on something special one day. .... He has an amazing gift, a level of spirituality and self-realisation in his writing you don't often find. A Hemingway or Xavier Herbert of our time.
nick cave— Russell Crowe on Cave
— Source: Crowe praises Cave's 'Gladiator' script (2005)
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.
Northrop Frye— "Statement for the Day of My Death"
Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
jim gaffigan— Allan Johnson (October 7, 2005) "Seriously, Jim Gaffigan is an actor and a stand-up comic", Chicago Tribune, p. 9.
The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.
Sugar Ray Leonard— Sugar Ray Leonard predicting a Ricky Hatton win if he fought Floyd Mayweather .Tuesday, 6 February 2007.[[8]]
She is probably the best vocalist right now, in our time. [...] Around the world, I have seen her play live, and oh my goodness gracious, she just has the most angelic, amazing range ever.
leona lewis— Katy Perry, The Scott Mills Show, BBC Radio 1, November 2008
Regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.
christopher moore— Author's notes : Science and Magic
It’s amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?
james richardson— #247 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
The beauty of physics lies in the extent to which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
— in Electromagnetism and Its Relation to Relativity, chapter 3 of his book Principles of electrodynamics. Courier Dover Publications. 1987. p. 105. ISBN 0486654931.
from mike: art show success! the show last night was amazing! thanks to everyone that showed up. we had a line around the block the entire time, and i think some people couldn't get in (i wouldn't know, i was inside signing things for 3+ hours). a lot of people said a lot of really nice things about the work -- glad you got to see it in person.
mike shinoda— LP/FM MB 2006
I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.
jimmy wales— Jimmy Wales on tech's future, Orlando Sentinel (03 November 2007)
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes
e. e. cummings— 65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson: and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to . . . and then some!
gloria estefan— address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of one's voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate .
j. william fulbright— "The Legislator," lecture delivered at the University of Chicago (1946), edited for the Committee on Social Thought by Robert B. Heywood, p. 123 (1947)
It isn't my profundity that makes me a mental marvel, it's the amazing detail of my perception. There's nobody else who can keep so many things on his mind at once.
r. a. lafferty— Atlas, in Ch. 4
Being the son of RD Laing was neither amazing nor enlightening …For most of the time it was a crock of shit.
ronald david laing— Adrian Laing, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man" in The Sunday Times (12 April 2009)
It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
steve maraboli— p. 90 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence:
francisco varela— the use of mathematical logic to understand the operation of the nervous system;the invention of information processing machines (as digital computers), thus laying the basis for artificial intelligence;the establishment of the metadiscipline of system theory, which has had an imprint in many branches of science, such as engineering (systems analysis, control theory), biology (regulatory physiology, ecology), social sciences (family therapy, structural anthropology, management, urban studies), and economics (game theory);information theory as a statistical theory of signal and communication channels;the first examples of self-organizing systems.
This list is impressive: we tend to consider many of these notions and tools an integrative part of our life...p.38
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
john archibald wheeler— John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth William Ford (2000). Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics?. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 153. ISBN 0393319911.
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
robert charles wilson— Chapter 4 (p. 33)
It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.
— Howard Raiffa (1982) The Art and Science of Negotiation. Part II, Chapter 7, Acquisitions and Mergers, p. 94
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence:
— the use of mathematical logic to understand the operation of the nervous system;
— the invention of information processing machines (as digital computers), thus laying the basis for artificial intelligence;
— the establishment of the metadiscipline of system theory, which has had an imprint in many branches of science, such as engineering (systems analysis, control theory), biology (regulatory physiology, ecology), social sciences (family therapy, structural anthropology, management, urban studies), and economics (game theory);[
— information theory as a statistical theory of signal and communication channels;
— the first examples of self-organizing systems.
Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
— His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, Article: Canada: 'A model for the world' - The Globe and Mail, February 2, 2002.
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
john leonard— John Leonard, Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979), "Dash" (p. 146)
Click. Boom. amazing!
steve jobs— MacWorld "Intel Inside" keynote address (January 2006)
amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.
— George F.R. Ellis, "The Anthropic Principle: Laws and Environments" in The Anthropic Principle: Proceedings of the Second Venice Conference on Cosmology and Philosophy (1988), F. Bertola and U. Curi, editors, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 30
Former Texas head coach Darrell Royal - "amazing," Darrell Royal said quietly. "There's just no other word for it. amazing.", commenting on the Rose Bowl.
— "Amazing, there's just no other word for it". The Daily Texan. 2006-01-04. Retrieved on 2006-07-13.
