Wonder Quotes - Page 15

• There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

  John Shaw Billings

  Jobs, Islands, People

  John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”

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• But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Land, Judging

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• Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Order

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• When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

  William Hague

  Sorry, Party, Thinking

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.

  Robert Ardrey

  Men, Boredom, Drug

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• I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.

  Simon de Pury

  Teenager, Hip Hop, Pockets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.

  Stephen Bruner

  Brother, Growing Up, Struggle

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

  Dallas Campbell

  Joy, Understanding, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

  Emmylou Harris

  Unique, Thinking, Voice

  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

  Emmylou Harris

  Song, Writing, Able

  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Cutting, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

  Terry Teachout

  Art, Firsts, Surprise

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• I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

  Amandla Stenberg

  College, Tuition, Minions

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• I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking, Long, Doubt

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• The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Morning, Husband

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• As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Senior, Morning, Jobs

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• The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Real, Pie, Long

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

  Katie Price

  Bed, Might, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Katie Price

  Night, Giving, Needs

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• I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Play, Envy, Drummer

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• Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is.

  John Lydon

  Loneliness, Men, Self

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• If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

  Nicole Kidman

  Hair, Trying, Blonde

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• I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Rain, Thinking, Wings

  "Farrah Fawcett Shockingly Shaves Head, Hollywood Gathers to Pray For a Miracle" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

  Sophocles

  Men, World, Wonderful

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Robert Whitelaw (1938). “Ten Greek Plays”

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• The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Secret, Development

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