Wonderland Quotes - Page 4

• Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed.

  Austin Bunn

  Ignorance, Long, Giving

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• That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

  Alan Watts

  Rain, Book, Sound

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• Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Dream, Children

  Lewis Carroll (2000). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass”, p.118, Penguin

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• All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Real, Media, Ideas

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• The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Preface, p. vii, 1937.

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• Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.

  Judy Delton

  Writing, Secret, Littles

  Judy Delton (1991). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Writer's Digest Books

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• I feel like Alice falling into Wonderland. A line came to him: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

  Eoin Colfer

  Nice, Fall, Would Be

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• It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

  John Fowles

  Being True, Felt

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Watches, Josie

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Children, Character

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

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• This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Growing Up, Mushrooms, Too Much

  Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

  Venus Williams

  Tennis, Skins, Dresses

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• 'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.

  Grace Slick

  Rip, Two, White

  Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 01, 1993.

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• Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there.

  Johnny Depp

  Glasses, Years, Littles

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• It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

  Upton Sinclair

  Sky, Yards, Littles

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Jungle - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.16, Prestwick House Inc

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• A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Technology, Glasses, Digital Revolution

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• The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!

  Alice Liddell

  Destruction

  "Fictional character: Alice Liddell". "Alice: Madness Returns", 2011.

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• Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.

  Frank Beddor

  Loss, Hands, Names

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• The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Attitude, Air, Cities

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• It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.

  Johnny Depp

  Book, Reading, Character

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• I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

  Michael Sheen

  Thinking, Stories, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Needs, Wonder, Break

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• I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Kissing, Names

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.206, Harlequin

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• But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Tired, Ungrateful, Sound

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.7, Delacorte Press

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• I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.

  Colleen Atwood

  Children, Fun, Grandma

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