Wow Quotes

• It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

  John Lennon

  Music, Eye, Thinking

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• Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mistake, Knows

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Stupid, Guy, Feels

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• I realized, "Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke!" And the next thing my brain says to me is, Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?"

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Opportunity, Brain, Next

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• Every morning I wake up, it's kind of like wow, I don't know what happened or how it happened, I can't put my finger on it, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful to be alive. To spend one more day with my family. One more day to make my dreams become a reality. One more day to help somebody. So the first thought on my mind is, thank you god for another day.

  Eric Thomas

  Dream, Morning, Grateful

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• I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy

  Layne Staley

  Joy, Thrill

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• Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.

  Michael Hyatt

  Powerful, Taken, Thinking

  Michael Hyatt (2012). “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Clever

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 25, 2016

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• So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

  Maria Shriver

  California, America, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

  John Mica

  Mean, Gun, Rights

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", votesmart.org. June 27, 2012.

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• I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

  Greil Marcus

  Taken, Thinking, Sound

  "This is Greil Marcus’ Brain on 'Shuffle'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2010.

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• There's a video that's been floating around on YouTube where [Baz Luhrmann says], "We were looking for a guy that sounded like a young Stevie Wonder but much more we got a guy that sounded like a younger version of Aretha Franklin. His name's Quindon Tarver." I was just like, "Wow, to be compared to her."

  Quindon Tarver

  Names, Guy, Floating

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.

  Cliff Burton

  Real, Kids, Writing

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• Nice girl who knew cars. Wow. I stared at her face harder, wishing I knew how to make it work. C’mon, Jake – imprint already.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Nice, Car

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• I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Son, Rome

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• When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, there's that same mockingbird; there's that woman in the red hat again. The woman in the red hat is about hope because she's in it up to her neck, too, yet every day she puts on that crazy red hat and walks to town.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Writing, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.101, Anchor

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• It's just that, I know how you're unhappy a lot. And, maybe it doesn't help anything, but I wanted you to know that I'm always here. I won't ever let you down―I promise that you can always count on me. Wow, that does sound corny. But you know that, right? That I would never, ever hurt you?" "Yeah Jake. I know that. And I already do count on you, probably more than you know.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Promise, Unhappy

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• I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!

  Katie Cassidy

  School, Play, Feelings

  "Katie Cassidy's Most Confident Moments" by Jamie Primeau, www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.

  Rachel Cohn

  Oxygen, People, Police

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.13, Egmont UK

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• I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy." "Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend stuff." "Feeling left out?" said Kyle. "I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too." "As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation." Eric poked his head through the curtain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Long, Feelings

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• I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.

  Rich Fulcher

  Beautiful, Sunset, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, World, Proud

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".

  John Green

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high.

  P. C. Cast

  Laughter, Fun, Blow

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