Wonder Quotes

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.

There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

It's human nature to wonder.

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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.

What I'm doing is a natural wonder. If not, there'd be 150 people behind me on the wire.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!

People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.