Laurie Anderson Quotes

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

Life is pretty surreal and awesome.

I'm very grateful to Manchester City. They are incredible.

Too marvelous for words.

The first thing I do every day when I wake up is thank God for letting me make it through the night and giving me another day of life - just because sometimes I wake up, and I cannot believe I'm doing what I'm doing. I just thank Him. I don't know how I deserve it, but it's completely because of Him.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

My parents are just really down-to-earth, earnest, hardworking people that don't want for anything. I think that really served me because when you put more value on experience than things, then you're going to go out and have experiences.

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

I am a regular kid. I like the simple things, and I always want to improve.

Me winning all these trophies is amazing and I want to keep going. And I know that at the snap of a finger it can be taken away. So each and every moment I have to enjoy - and stay humble as well. Because you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

It's easy for me to stay grounded because I know I am just a girl, a mother, a daughter, a lover... a normal person who was lucky enough to do this job, and I know it's my job - not the person I am.

Just the thought of being on Oprah's radar at all is humbling, but to actually have her take time get on the phone with me kind of blows my mind.