Wonder Quotes

• If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Heaven
  • Wonders
  • I Expect

• When I'm sitting in bed watching 'Chopped' - that Brie I know. But I don't know the Brie in sky-high heels on a carpet with a bunch of people screaming at me. I wonder what she's like.

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • She
  • High

• The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Child
  • Christmas
  • Season

• Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

  

  will.i.am
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Moving

• All animals feel Wonder, and many exhibit Curiosity. They sometimes suffer from this latter quality, as when the hunter plays antics and thus attracts them.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Quality
  • Wonder
  • Curiosity

• I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Live
  • Children
  • School

• Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Wonder

• Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Identity

• For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Good
  • Real
  • Art

• I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Wonder
  • Realizes
  • Sweet Face

• It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman.

  

  Joel Silver
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • People
  • Able
  • Recognizing

• Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

  

  Michelangelo
  • Wonder
  • Consumes
  • Reduces

• We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Why
  • Together
  • Amazing

• You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Character
  • Wonder

• Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

  

  Jef I. Richards
  • Wonder

• I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

  

  Cecil Castellucci
  • Wonder
  • Target

• There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People
  • Wonder

• Large companies from out-of-state still look at the Mormon factor and wonder if they can conduct business here. But with the Provo Airport gearing up, and if we get regular scheduled flights, that would help our growth.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Up
  • Business
  • Help

• A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

  

  Chester Burnett
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Wells

• I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

  

  John Cazale
  • People
  • Wonder

• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Know
  • Celebration
  • Meditating

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