Wonder Quotes

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

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

Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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

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

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

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

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

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

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

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

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.

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.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.