Wonder Quotes - Page 11

• One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Believe, Taken

  8 Copy quote

• I don't make rules myself. I didn't study enough to be able to make them. I'm too stupid. I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Even at times when we had a very tight and difficult schedule, it was always enjoyable. Of course I wonder if the film will be successful afterwards. It's wonderful if a film becomes successful as a result of the enjoyment that we had

  Takashi Miike

  Stupid, Successful, Schedules

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime

  Ian Brennan

  Art, Comfort, World

  Ian Brennan (2016). “How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is a really good example of a large empire that, in one form or another, functioned for quite a long time over a very large area. And over all that time, there was all sorts of exciting drama - civil wars and assassinations and revolts and bits breaking off and being forced back in ... But I didn't want my future - however fanciful it was - to be entirely European. The Radchaai aren't meant to be Romans in Space.

  Ann Leckie

  War, Drama, Space

  6 Copy quote

• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  Arika Okrent

  Color, Skills, Tangled

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don't do; it is about God - completing and resting and blessing and sanctifying. These are all things that we don't know much about......But it does mean stopping and being quiet long enough to see - open-mouthed - with wonder - resurrection wonder.....we cultivate the "fear of the Lord". Our souls are formed by what we cannot work up or take charge of. We respond and enter into what the resurrection of Jesus continues to do."

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Mean, Blessing

  Eugene H. Peterson (2008). “Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology”, p.150, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Giving, World

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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

  Henry Van Dyke

  Suffering, Generations, Heritage

  4 Copy quote

• As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  Huston Smith

  Islands, Shoreline, Known

  16 Copy quote

• Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.

  Fred Reichheld

  Book, Names, Differences

  11 Copy quote

• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.

  C. Sommerville

  Teacher, Children, School

  4 Copy quote

• My twenties were about exploring love and being a wildflower and trying to figure everything out. Now I'm not comfortable being that happy wildflower anymore, but I still don't feel like a woman. I wonder when that moment's going to hit.

  Drew Barrymore

  Trying, Twenties, Wildflowers

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very good, the narrative still survives because it's all in the dialogue. Not to say there aren't great performances in English-language films, because there are every year, but the 1970s were awash with great performances, and I was wondering whether it had to do with the amount of space and the amount of responsibility given to the actors.

  Paul Bettany

  Responsibility, Years, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed to tell. Having been working with the homeless for the past years, I noticed lots of things about them, but one thing I really noticed was that they were probably too busy just getting though the day to make a film about themselves.

  Paul Bettany

  Past, Years, People

  "Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Connelly & Paul Bettany Discuss Making ‘Shelter’ & the State of Homelessness in NYC" by Aramide A Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 13, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

  John Scalzi

  People, Poor

  John Scalzi (2010). “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008”, p.300, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder if Harley-Davidson makes a unicycle

  Michael Hedges

  Unicycles, Harley, Ifs

  12 Copy quote

• If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.

  Kathy Lette

  Men, Bras, Given

  Kathy Lette (1993). “Foetal attraction”, Pan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sweet, Names, Taste

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 02, 2017

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.

  Simon Jenkins

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sixth Sense, Sense Of Wonder

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wonder if Dave Bearden still dislikes me.

  Ted Berrigan

  Dislike Me, Dave, Stills

  Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan (2005). “The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan”, p.68, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't have to pound your head after hearing a country song and wonder if you missed something.

  Annette Funicello

  Country, Song, Hearing

  4 Copy quote

• I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

  Jim Cummings

  Magic, Torches, Generations

  4 Copy quote

• Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"

  Stephen Covey

  Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

  15 Copy quote