“I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.” KnowsWholeSongStuffNumbersWonderImpossibleHairListeningBandIncludingAwful80sIpodsSingle WordLive MusicBad MusicHair Bands Author:Lauren Weisberger
“While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.” WaySexNumbersWonderFantasyDefiningExclusiveHaving Sex Author:Nigella Lawson
“The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.” WorldPersonsBodyGovernmentPoliticalPurposeAnswersNumbersWonderPoliticianWeightClockPulleys Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“I wonder love can have already set In dreams, when we've not met More times than I can number on one hand.” LoveI CanDreamHandsNumbersWonderMetsMore TimeWonder Love Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.” PeoplePhilosophyAnswersNumbersWonderOffersAddressesSatisfying Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.” PeopleIfsSaidShowsTurnsNumbersWonderWindMeritHiring Author:Callie Khouri
“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.” IfsFeelsHumansHelpingHuman BeingsNumbersWonderHugeSolitudeCapacity Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson
“A high percentage of organisations develop a military rationale, whereby only a very small number of people make all of the decisions. There is little wonder, then, that people aren't keen to get out of bed and come to work on a Monday morning.” PeopleLittlesDecisionNumbersWonderMorningMilitaryBedMondayPercentagesOrganisationMonday MorningSmall NumbersRationale Author:Ricardo Semler
“It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.” MenWorldMeanUseNumbersWonderMagicConceptsUniversalMathematicsInstrumentsBillsGroceriesWonder Of The WorldExactitude Author:Manly Hall
“God is moving powerfully in and amongst children in this hour. You will see MANY children raised up to preach, heal, prophesy, move in miracles, signs and wonders. Numbers of young children will be visited by the Lord in areas of "Divine Intelligence" and many will go to the mission field at an early age.” ChildrenAgeMovingYoungHoursNumbersWonderLordFieldsDivineAreasMiracleRaisedMissionsHealYoung ChildrenSigns And Wonders Author:Patricia King
“Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.” ReasonUniverseAsksNumbersWonderLordGraceShareSurpriseDearEach DayAweGrantsMarvelousSurprise MeMarvelous ThingsCreviceDear Lord Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it's no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.” IfsWorldLooksMadeNumbersHalfWonderStreetsMiddleRevolutionIraqListsBreadRegimesConsumptionEgyptEasternWheatArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisHelmetLibyaMoroccoYemenTunisiaAlgeriaBaguettes Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“Older animals are the best because, number one, a majority of the time, they are already house-trained; number two, you know exactly what kind of personality you are going to be getting with that animal; and number three, they are already full size, so no need to wonder how big they are going to get.” KnowsNeedsKindTwoBigsThreeHouseAnimalNumbersWonderPersonalityMajoritySizeNumber Three Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern
“I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.” IfsWritingYearsArtSchoolLanguageNumbersWonderCreativeArt IsBackgroundsVisualsGraduatesCreative WritingPottersVisual ArtGraduate SchoolMateriality Author:Anna Journey
“That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.” PeopleEnoughMightNumbersWonderInternetRetweet Author:Aaron Paul