Lewis Carroll Quotes

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

Lewis Carroll

• Wonder
• Smile
• Dreaming
• Fairytale

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Wonder
  • Film
  • Enough

• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Children
  • Husband

• I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Nature

• 'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Smile

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Creation

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • Fairy
  • Fairytale

• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Remember
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Doing

• When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Wonder

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Island

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,When you, you wonder why, love none.We love, Fool, for the good we do,Not that which unto us is done!

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Good
  • Done
  • Why

• The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • America
  • Free

• 'Doubtless,' said I, 'what it utters is its only stock and store,Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful DisasterFollowed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Stock

• And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.

  

  Mike Curb
  • California
  • Looking
  • Substantially

• Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Future
  • Design

• Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Wonder
  • Smile
  • Dreaming