Wonder Quotes

• 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

• I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.

  

  Adrianne Palicki
  • Wonder

• I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.

  

  Aviv Nevo
  • Women
  • Wonder

• I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Amazing
  • Humanity
  • Wonder

• I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

  

  Joe Lando
  • Up
  • Wonder

• I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Despair

• I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

  

  Elizabeth Barton
  • Important
  • Wish
  • Beauty

• The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Wonder
  • Childhood
  • Magic

• When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Why
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• 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

• What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while. No wonder people liked admirers. They seemed, in some strange way, to make one come alive.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Fun
  • Admirers
  • Strange way

• I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Wonder

• I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Long
  • Children

• I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

  

  Clive Anderson
  • God
  • Strong
  • Rude

• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Up
  • Night
  • Lost

• Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Wonder
  • Painting

• We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

  

  E. Merrill Root
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Nature

• I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around, and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.

  

  Megan McCafferty
  • Up
  • Different
  • Age

• When the media we create excludes girls and women, fails to depict them as leaders and innovators or treats them as little more than side-kicks, love interests and sex objects, is it any wonder that women are systematically excluded and under-represented in so many careers and leadership positions?

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Leadership

• A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,Thoughts without sound; Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder And held me bound.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Wonder
  • Thoughts
  • Shadow

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• 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

• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  

  Jose Padilha
  • Violence
  • Wonder

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