Wonder Quotes - Page 29

• It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?

  George Carlin

  Pussy, Saws, Firsts

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  White, Rays, Dinner

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• Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

  Plutarch

  Memories, Gone

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays”

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• You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Perfect, Know Yourself, Knows

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• The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.

  Amy Ryan

  Teacher, New York, Inspiration

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

  Lewis Black

  People, Leader, Drug

  "Black on Broadway". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. May 15, 2004.

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• The fumes are killing us, and we wonder why things are going haywire.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Killing

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Movie, Understanding

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• Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

  Chelsea Handler

  People, Drink, Needed

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• If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Play, Superhero, Wonder Woman

  "Fiona Gubelmann Interview WILFRED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2011.

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• Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.

  Enele Sopoaga

  Self, Worry, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• I like to really spend the time and figure it out and rehearsal is to try something that doesn't work. It's hard to do that, because you always want to go with your impulse thought and you wonder if that's the one, did that work, you know?

  William Fichtner

  Trying, Rehearsal, Want

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

  Arnold Newman

  Done, Painting, Wells

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• People who hate what I make hate me, too. They must think I am a demon or some kind of evil sorcerer. Those who understand what I do appreciate the determination, love, and courage it takes to find wonder and beauty in people who are considered by society to be damaged, unclean, dysfunctional, or wretched.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Determination, Hate, Thinking

  Germano Celant, Joel-Peter Witkin (1995). “Witkin”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated

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• I wonder if there were any goths in gothic times. They're like: You look completely appropriate. You don't look stupid or lonely at all.

  Demetri Martin

  Lonely, Stupid, Looks

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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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• 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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• I wonder how they deal with mice at Disney World.

  Demetri Martin

  World, Deals, Mice

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2013

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• Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Idols, Concepts

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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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• 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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