Wonderland Quotes - Page 5

• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Wall, Style, Maps

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

  Alan Perlis

  Book, Programming, Layman

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

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• Alice of Wonderland was stranded on Earth.

  Frank Beddor

  Earth, Stranded

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• A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Games, Play

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• Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

  Liane Moriarty

  Falling In Love, Kissing, Floating

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• Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

  Dean Koontz

  White, Rabbits, Tonight

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

  Charles Lane Poor

  Reading, Science, Mad

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• I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

  Conor Oberst

  Central Park, Forever, Looks

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• like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

  Lauren Oliver

  Rooms, Bigs

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• When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

  Mark Steyn

  Winter, Numbers, World

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Idyllic, Eras

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Two, Common, Denied

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.250, Delacorte Press

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• To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and everyone . . . nothing is 'familiar' any longer . . . . I think that unfamiliarity is the most difficult thing to face; one feels rather like Alice in Wonderland after she has nibbled the toadstool that made her grow smaller - and like Alice, one hopes that the process will stop while there is still something left!

  Pauline Gower

  Cutting, Night, Thinking

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• She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

  Truman Capote

  Queens, Flamingos, Red

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

  Marc Singer

  Retirement, Mistake, Believe

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• My body is far from a wonderland. My body is more like a pawnshop. There's a lot of interesting things put together, and if you look closely you'd probably be excited, but at first glance, not so much.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Interesting, Together, Firsts

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt faces Stupid Questions". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. October 11, 2007.

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• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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• See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow.

  One Be Lo

  Rap, Home, Practice

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• I've always had a real fascination with Alice in Wonderland and really related to it in some way. And since I was little, people always nicknamed me Alice, even total strangers. I do know I'm always in Wonderland. And I'm definitely just as curious. I don't mind being amongst the mad people, I enjoy it.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Real, People, Mad

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

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• Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Book, London, My Favorite

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• After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and
  through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Writing, Two

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

  Betty Who

  Home, Holiday, Thinking

  "Viral Video Singer Betty Who Doesn't Want to Get Proposed to in Home Depot". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

  Grant Morrison

  Mean, Want, Might

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.

  Lena Dunham

  School, Italian, Men

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!

  Cheshire Cat

  Queens, Army, Bugs

  "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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