Wonder Quotes

• I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Present

• People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Connection

• I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?

  

  Eric Hill
  • Wonder
  • Author
  • Ego

• I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Sweet

• I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Compassion

• 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
  • Prince

• I personally wonder... regardless of whether you're a religious person or not, everybody comes into every conversation with a particular worldview and things that you believe are right or wrong. The question is can you counsel from a totally non-value-based position?

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Believe
  • Question
  • Value

• You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Wonder

• My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in and out.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Wonder

• My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Help
  • Wonder
  • Illusion

• A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Art
  • Surprise
  • Critics

• I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Care
  • Exercise
  • Size

• I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Walking

• The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it before. Liking it so much is dangerous now, and so I hold it and look through it, and drink it very slowly.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Why
  • Amazing
  • Whiskey

• In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

  

  Joe Simon
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Today

• Sometimes I feel more bigness than I've shared with you Sometimes I wonder why I quell when I'm not required to

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Why
  • Wonder

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • People
  • Book
  • Natural

• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Wonder
  • Architecture
  • Ass

• I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?

  

  Megan Follows
  • People
  • Women
  • Children

• 'Wonder if it's all true?' said Charlotte, as we hurried up the path. 'Sounded dreadfully like nonsense, in parts!' 'P'raps its true for all that,' I replied encouragingly.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Up
  • True
  • Path

• My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • God
  • Devil
  • Grandfather

• When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • Up
  • Team
  • Wonder

• Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Children
  • Community
  • Wonder

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