Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.

Marcus Aurelius

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Pierre Trudeau

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

Hector Elizondo

It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To wonder is to begin to understand.

Marissa Mayer

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

Mavis Staples

I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.

Maureen O'Hara

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Maya Beiser

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Madeleine L'Engle

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

Lucy Liu

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

John Fowles

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.

Jonathan Edwards

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

Joyce Carol Oates

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Rachel Carson

Drink in the beauty and wonder at the meaning of what you see.

Plutarch

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

Pierce Brosnan

The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.

Paul Theroux

A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.

Patrick Dempsey

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

To walk on not wondering am I right or doing something wrong.

Mary Oliver

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us...

John Huston

I am more lost in wonder than ever.

John Ensign

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

John O'Donohue

Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.

Lewis Carroll

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Lewis Carroll

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Lewis Carroll

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

Lewis Carroll

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Lewis Carroll

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Lewis Carroll

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder