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I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.

I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

If I choose to come in this ring and walk over here and stand infront of the bald wonder twins and beat the living crap out of you, I can.

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

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.

I don't understand, who is God. I don't understand God. But to simplify that, I will say I believe in creation. They say God is the Supreme Being. I don't believe so. I don't believe God created us in his image. I believe we are too small to understand totally the cosmic wonder of the universe.

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

I feel everything very strongly, and that is why I am an actress. I have made such clear connections between some of my chronic boo-boos in my body and emotion. It is kind of fascinating. I really feel like as a society, we need tap into that and embrace that more and more instead of wondering why we are sick.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.

If God hadn't meant us to hunt men, he wouldn't have given us Wonder Bras.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

If you see somebody really pulling for your sympathy while at the same time hurting you intermittently, you should start to wonder. If somebody plays to your pity and really tries to draw that out of you, that's not normal.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything.

I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that." I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

I live a very international life, but when I come back to Hollywood, a town I love in a lot of ways, I have to wonder, "What decade are you in? Like, seriously, what decade? It's not this one.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

I’m actually pretty good at stripping, which makes me wonder what happened in my previous life. Funny enough, I don’t wear a lot of clothes when I dance and it’s very sexy, so it wasn’t too hard to get into the motion of it.