“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.” WorldChildrenFacesUsedAnimalWonderClassBoysWatchesFantasyMiddleAdventureCloudsGiantsMiddle ClassDragonsCastlesMundaneMiddle Class Life Author:Barry B. Longyear
“Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.” KnowsWorldReasonWonderBoysMankindGeniusSeasonsCeaseAssMagazinesCurseProseNo ReasonBoresVersesClashEccentricMuteBlundersHaggardKipling Author:James Kenneth Stephen
“I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.” IfsHeartHalfWonderBoysMy HeartScaryCracksChestsSplitsMy Boys Book:Yes Please Source: Yes Please
“Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.” WayThreeWonderBoysWonderfulMathematicsCome UpDividesTricycles Author:Earl Wilson
“Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'” IfsWayFirstsHeartHardRememberSpiritualSufferingWishGoalQualityWonderBoysRichExpressionMusic IsGuitarAddictionAtmosphereNew ThingsBucksGet RichMega Author:Trey Anastasio
“The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?” MadeSongWonderBoysRocksOne DayOfficeIronyPunkRobotsAnthemDaftDaft Punk Book:The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network Source: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network
“I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.” ThinkingWantHeartPersonsHandsResponsibilityWonderBoys Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.” IfsKnowsUsedChurchWonderBoysWindowExcuseIf I CouldGoing OutBathroomToilets Author:Dolly Parton
“I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenYoungSufferingWonderBoysNormalAdultsProfoundAddictionNosesAlcoholismNormal Family Author:Brian Lindstrom
“Even when I was a little boy, when I was seven, I absolutely loved Wonder Woman, and I saw her as one of the superhero greats with Superman and Batman, and I think it's because she was her own thing. She always felt like the real deal the same way that Superman and Batman did. Whereas the She-Hulks and Spider-Women and all that kind of thing felt like a continuation of a concept.” ThinkingWayKindLittlesRealFeltDealsWonderBoysSawsConceptsSevenSuperheroSpidersLittle BoysContinuationWonder WomanSuperman And Batman Author:Mark Millar
“Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.” PeopleKnowsChildrenCareKidsParentWonderBoysWatchesTake CareUnhappyThank GodPigs Author:Maurice Sendak
“That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.” KnowsFeelsDifferentWonderBoysRolesAudiencePerformancesSurprise Author:Curtis Hanson
“On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.” CharacterFeelingsCertainThreeFeltWonderBoysStruggleFiguresInvolvedFemaleIndependentMalesSurfaceI RealizedContemporaryShootingDepartureConfidential Author:Curtis Hanson
“When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.” FirstsHumansCharacterTermWonderBoysNovelDecidedLocationPittsburgh Author:Curtis Hanson
“So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.” PeopleDoeMovingWonderBoysAudienceRewardsLibraryReviewsDiscouragingTime Goes By Author:Curtis Hanson
“Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.” KnowsImportantCharacterWonderBoysGroupsHeadings Author:Curtis Hanson
“I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.” IfsWayCharacterWonderBoysNovelAudienceSpecialIf I CouldEnthusiastic Author:Curtis Hanson
“I very much had wanted to do a picture with more humor than what I had been allowed to do earlier, which is what attracted me to Wonder Boys so much. I found it funny in a very serious way, which is the best kind of comedy.” WayKindWantedFoundWonderBoysComedySerious Author:Curtis Hanson