Wonder Quotes

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

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

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the outfits you're all wearing at home.

I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.

....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.

You've gotta wonder what kind of vibe you're putting out there if you're having really creepy people come talk to you.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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?

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to believe me.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.

Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

I had started to wonder if maybe my life wouldn't always hold so much pain if I could just find the courage to let it go.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you - Nell Harris

I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed.

If I go out with someone I need them to sit and give me a cuddle every night. If they don't, I wonder if they still love me.

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

I believe that one-product wonders come and go.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.