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Wonder Quotes
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
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"I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'."
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"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
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"I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free."
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"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me."
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"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
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"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
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"Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret " something ancient and precious."
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"Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing - pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons."
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"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
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"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
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"And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery."
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"Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?"
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"I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it."
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"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
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"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."
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"You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides."
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"Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is."
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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
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"I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do."
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"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."
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"What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!"
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"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"
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"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
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"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet."
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"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?"
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"When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside."
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"I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?"
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