Wonder Quotes

• 'Teddy, you know what I was thinking? How do you tell what are real things from what aren't real things?' The bear shuffled its alternatives. 'Real things are good.' 'I wonder if time is good. I don't think Mummy likes time very much. The other day, lots of days ago, she said that time went by her. Is time real, Teddy?'

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Father
  • Car
  • Wonder

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.

  

  Polly Walker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

  

  Thomas More
  • Should
  • Values
  • Made

• Behold the hippopotamus!We laugh at how he looks to us,And yet in moments dank and grim,I wonder how we look to him.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Moments
  • Wonder

• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • True
  • Man
  • Amazing

• Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Style
  • Serious
  • Air

• Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.

  

  Marina Oswald
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Violence

• The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Family
  • Dirty

• Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

  

  David Blaine
  • Different
  • Art
  • Hand

• Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Meaning

• You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• There should be characters and situations that we cannot identify with, that retain either too much horror or too much wonder to allow for simple identification. That feels to me like an accurate depiction of what it is like to be in the world, rather than a neutered register of continual empathy.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • World
  • Simple
  • Empathy

• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

  

  Socrates
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning
  • Wonder

• I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Wonder

• It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Subconscious
  • Nap
  • Reveries

• There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

  

  Ella Mai
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Waiting

• Philosophy begins with wonder.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wonder
  • Philosophy
  • Begins

• The time is here for you to stand up for what you know is right. You must judge right from wrong. No longer can you be complacent or go with the flow or wonder what to do. You must decide now which path you will follow and which answer you will give. Decide well in advance, before the pressure is on, what you stand for.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Path

• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Accusation

• I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Why
  • Wonder

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