Wonder Quotes

• 'The Muppet Show' was huge. I watched it all the time as a kid, and I really loved the way they used music on that. I also remember hearing the radio in the car as a kid, like Stevie Wonder and Simon and Garfunkel.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Time
  • Music
  • Remember

• There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

  

  George Eliot
  • Genius
  • Mood
  • Despair

• When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'

  

  Gene Simmons
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Wonder

• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

  

  Plutarch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Pessimist

• It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

  

  Susan Vreeland
  • Moments
  • Strange
  • Kissing

• George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

  

  Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  • Wonder

• For a long time, we got no respect. People thought we just got lucky. They said we were a one-record wonder.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Wonder
  • I Meet
  • Imaginary Friend

• People wonder why I go out with models with nothing between their heads

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Models

• These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld
  • History
  • High School
  • Possibilities

• Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Wonder

• I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

  

  Cate Kennedy
  • People
  • Know
  • Weight

• I've come to realize that Barack Obama is the tattoo president. Like a big tattoo, it seemed cool when you were young. But later on, that decision doesn't look so good, and you wonder: what was I thinking? But the worst part is you're still going to have to explain it to your kids.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Kids
  • Decision
  • Politics

• This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Love
  • Holiday
  • Vacation

• In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Children
  • Lovers
  • Grab

• Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he or she live in.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • World
  • Children
  • Experience

• When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  

  Henry Flynt
  • People
  • Artist
  • Ability

• I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Wonder
  • Deep

• Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

  

  Plutarch
  • Wonder

• The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Long
  • Hate
  • Sometimes

• I suppose every child has a world of his own - and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

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