Wonder Quotes

• One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Blessed

• There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Friends
  • Stop
  • Eyes

• I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

  

  Kylie Bax
  • People
  • Truth
  • Wish

• I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• 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

• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Simple
  • Spring
  • Ends

• The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fear

• It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

  

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Great
  • History
  • Irish

• All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Trying
  • Growing
  • Maturity

• Sometimes I wonder if my purpose on this earth is to be a role model. Look at my challenges as a gift, and my voice as tool.

  

  Anastacia
  • Earth
  • Purpose
  • Model

• Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • People
  • Life
  • Wonder

• There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dream

• Ever tried to get sleep in a hospital? Ever wonder if anyone even taught them what care is? Some hospitals are great, but some sure aren't.

  

  Dave deBronkart
  • Great
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Money
  • College
  • I Wonder

• Sometimes I think back to everything I've been through, and I wonder, 'Man, how the hell did I get here?'

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Wonder

• How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Around
  • Travels

• Domestic wiretaps, government television cameras blanketing our streets, spy drones by the thousands flying over our heads. It makes you wonder if the very foundation of this great country, which is liberty, is eroding right before our eyes.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Great
  • Country
  • Eyes

• I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Time
  • Wonder

• I always wonder why people cast me in anything.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Why
  • Wonder

• With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Stereotypes

• I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Wonder

• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Why
  • Read
  • Doctors

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