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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him.

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

No wonder the creationists don't believe the darwinian account.

Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

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

Nudity seems to be an issue that America can't get over in general. I wonder when the day will come when we finally become okay with it, with the human form.

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

One of the things the Democratic Party is trying to do is take the word off-year out of our lexicon, because we've tended to be an accordion as a party. We expand in the presidentials; we shrink in between; and we scratch our head and wonder why we lose midterms.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.