Wonder Quotes - Page 12

• A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.

  Ricardo Semler

  Monday, Morning, Military

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• Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

  Gerald Brenan

  Artist, People, World

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• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uniforms, Television, Wonder Woman

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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• My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  Albert Einstein

  Space, Intellectual, Development

  "Einstein: The Life and Times" by Ronald W. Clark, (p. 27), 1971.

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• Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
  How I wonder where you are.
  Looking up is no solution;
  The sky's so full of light pollution.

  David H. Levy

  Stars, Light, Sky

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

  Laurie Anderson

  Spiritual, Practice, People

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

  Diana Vreeland

  Joy, Tears, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm sure everyone feels this way, but it's hard to have a proper opinion of yourself or how things are or how you expected them to be or how far removed they are from how you expect them to be. On the one hand, you're extraordinarily grateful and terribly excited, but on the other, I stop and go, "I wonder what the future does hold."

  Dominic Cooper

  Grateful, Hands, Doe

  "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

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• As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.

  James Purdy

  Summer, New York, Stupid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

  James Purdy

  Dope, Machines, Goes On

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

  Aristotle

  Humans, Has Beens, Human Beings

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• You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? -and then you remembered the nightmare....This was no time for beauty, for love, or private future....There was no future; everyone waited, marked time, waited. For what?

  Dawn Powell

  Morning, Lost Love, Eye

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• We often put off doing something for as long as possible, then as we finally make the decision and step into the action, we're surprised by its relative ease. We're left to wonder why we dreaded it until we realize that most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

  Robert McKee

  Long, Decision, Ease

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• Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  House, Bed, Void

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• I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . . and wonder: what is going to happen today? Will anything happen? Will the angel come today?

  Gail Godwin

  Morning, Coffee, Angel

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• The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

  Jack Kroll

  Roof, Technological, Packages

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• I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

  Rupert Everett

  Queens, Men, Play

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Half

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

  Ted Kooser

  Children, Rain, Past

  Ted Kooser (2012). “Delights & Shadows”, p.76, Copper Canyon Press

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• It is no wonder lesbians love women.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

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• With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Mindfulness, Wonder Of Life

  "Oprah Talks to Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

  Lewis Black

  Brain, Bed, Use

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• The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Dark

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