Wonder Quotes - Page 19

• Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

  Amy Schumer

  Want, Way, Bathroom

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• Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

  Sam Smith

  Legacy, Madness, Rich

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• Women do fool around. But the reason they don't get caught is that when a woman mess with a man he lives cross town, out of town. Fellas we mess with next door neighbor, co-worker, wondering why she found out.

  Bruce Bruce

  Men, Doors, Next

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• I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big 'ole brown eggs. Like, you didn't have to be a detective to figure it out. 'Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream?

  Arj Barker

  Dream, Block, Halloween

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• As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.

  Dana Gould

  Pie, Hobos, Global Warming

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• Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

  Dana Gould

  Winning, People, Tornadoes

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 13, 2013

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• I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

  Gary Gulman

  Trying, Obsessive, Subjects

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• Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

  Dov Davidoff

  Camping, Failing, Awe

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 09, 2012

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• I wonder if anybody ever decided to commit suicide, then thought; but first I'm going to stop by that taco place I like so much.

  Dov Davidoff

  Suicide, Tacos, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 10, 2012

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• It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.

  Dov Davidoff

  Zebras, Harmony, Metaphor

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• I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

  Ne-Yo

  Mom, Listening, Singing

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• I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.

  Haley Webb

  Right Now, Doing Right

  Twitter post from Jul 07, 2013

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• For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.

  Michael Lesy

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.

  John Noble Wilford

  Wise, Past, Worry

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• Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favor of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.

  Hans Bellmer

  Childhood, Anxiety, Erotic

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• From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.

  Rinko Kawauchi

  Ocean, Light, Imagination

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• I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.

  Todd Walker

  Art, Thinking, Secret

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• Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.

  Ian Caldwell

  Lonely, Morning, Air

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• Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Desire, Knows

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• Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

  Ronald Reagan

  Reality, People, Theory

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

  Nikola Tesla

  Character, Past, Forever

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.21, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

  Dolly Parton

  Boys, Church, Going Out

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• We'll never know whether something new and wonderful is possible unless we try. Let's scratch our heads, stretch our minds, be adventurous! Serve God with boldness, and who knows what wonders the Lord may work?

  Jimmy Carter

  Mind, Trying, Scratches

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• It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

  Gautama Buddha

  Practice, Danger, Ashamed

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