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Wonder Quotes
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
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"The universe is full of doors."
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"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
58
"At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far."
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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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"But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image?"
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"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."
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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."
50
"Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing - pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons."
49
"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."
48
"Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."
47
"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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"We are perishing for lack of wonder, not for lack of wonders."
46
"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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"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
46
"Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is."
44
"Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?"
42
"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet."
41
"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
40
"From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it."
40
"I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it."
40
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
39
"I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?"
38
"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"
38
"I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free."
37
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
37
"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."
37
"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
36
"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."
36
"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."
35
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
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