A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
We had some Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, but there's a lot of hip-hop and other black music that I just never… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything's old hat. They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she’d spent her hours in the dark wondering whether… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Her voice was soft and numinous, as befitted any Aizian singer, yet it was not just bells and melody. There was something… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
Alex took a silent step closer to the kitchen door and watched unseen as willow spooned instant coffee into a pair of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar… — Eddie Cochran Copy Share Image
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade… — John Ray Copy Share Image
“So we shall wonder little, blink our eyes at repetitions of the sun and moon; a briefer death than death i take… — Grace Butcher Copy Share Image
Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
