Wonder Quotes

• She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Smile

• You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Pieces
  • Commerce

• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Gods
  • Human Beings
  • Advances

• I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Book
  • Religion
  • Eye

• Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder

• The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

  

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld
  • Different
  • History
  • Interested

• 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

• Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder.

  

  David Mixner
  • Time
  • Country
  • Small

• Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child, make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom- anywhere.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when 'Oklahoma!' was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called 'Away We Go,' they added a new song called 'Oklahoma!' I don't think that could happen today. It's almost impossible to change musicals on the go now.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Today
  • Song
  • Wonder

• It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Made
  • Claims
  • Discovering

• I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

  

  Stefon Harris
  • Soul
  • Listening
  • Cities

• Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wonder
  • Victory
  • Armies

• I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Women
  • Wonder
  • Insulting

• For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • History
  • Aesthetic

• Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

  

  William Carey
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Journey

• I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Mind
  • Limitation
  • Preparing

• I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Generations
  • Enthusiasm
  • Cube

• What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Style
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

  

  Andrea Arnold
  • People
  • Wonder

• 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

• The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Fall
  • Optimistic
  • Pessimist

• I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Creative
  • Distance
  • Australia

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