Wondered Why Quotes

97 quotes by 88 authors

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food. — Robert Orben
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why… — Nick Jonas
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden,… — Conrad Veidt
The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no… — Charles Duhigg
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that… — Norman Finkelstein
If youâ€™ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, donâ€™t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while… — Larry Brooks
Do women dress for men or women? Iâ€™ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the… — Nancy Friday
I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end… — Saadat Hasan Manto
Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that.… — Gertrude B. Elion
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought… — Richard Dawkins
Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I… — Kathleen Grissom
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens… — Isaac Hayes
There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those… — Eleanor Brown
Iâ€™ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why canâ€™t love be simple? Why canâ€™t it just be as… — Bella Andre
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of… — Manuel Puig
I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was… — Mario Cantone
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the… — Steven Pressfield
I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her… — Anne Lamott

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