Wonder Quotes

• I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • True
  • Hope
  • Sleep

• Go out to the last few grains of sand, the smartest of the smartest of the smartest, times a thousand. It makes sense that people would be a little odd out here. But you really have to wonder why we all end up in jail.

  

  Austin Grossman
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Death
  • Silver

• If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Wonder

• My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Sexy

• I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

  

  Mary Szybist
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Style

• Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Wonder

• But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Long
  • Power

• He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

  

  Colum McCann
  • God
  • Trying
  • Faith

• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Long
  • Live
  • Depression

• It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined. Opinions vary on the answer. ..Bertrand Russell acknowledged..'Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little.' ..Mathematics may be indispensable to physics, but it obviously does not constitute physics.

  

  Etienne Klein
  • Mathematics
  • Opinions
  • Physics

• Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Wonder

• I feel really bad for everyone who died on 9/11. Not just the people in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or Flight 93, but all of the terrorists, too. 'Garden State' came out in 2004. That means none of them got a chance to see it. Let that sink in for a second. No wonder they're building a memorial.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Country
  • Hills
  • Irreligion

• These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do get married... this is just a natural evolution. I wonder if we'll have 'Big Bang' babies in the season finale?

  

  Kunal Nayyar
  • People
  • Life
  • Wonder

• 'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?

  

  Charles Soule
  • People
  • Deep
  • Superman

• I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Way
  • Class
  • Capable

• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Wonder

• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wonder
  • Vision
  • Human Eye

• A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

  

  John Burnside
  • Time
  • World
  • Appreciation

• My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Little Willie John

• Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an extraordinary technique and musicianship, this is little wonder.

  

  Gregory Isaacs
  • Audience
  • Extraordinary
  • Musicianship

• We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Passion
  • Cycles
  • Apprehension

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