“Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.” PersonsWonderSpecialUniqueCompareOriginalityVery Special Person Author:Susan Polis Schutz
“The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.” WorldSchoolTogetherBeliefReligiousWonderSpecialCollegeHumorousEnormousUsaDevotedHarvestReligious BeliefUnorthodox Author:Peter Medawar
“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.” WorldMadeAgeMy OwnQualityWonderMysteryChildhoodMiddleSpecialPromiseHorrorSceneEvidenceImmortalityVisibleIntensityVagueMiddle AgesHintsSeductiveMenacePlausible Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950 Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950
“We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.” ThinkingWayWantWellsUniverseWonderSpecialCreaturesUniqueCapacityOne WayPresent Time Author:Sylvia Earle
“Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!” PeopleWorldCharacterRealityNationsSocialWonderFantasySpecialConditionsOffersClothesLaborBillsDuesMovieCharmFloatsVirtual RealityTediumDebtorsSocial Conditions Author:Molly Haskell
“Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.” PeopleKnowsSometimesCan DoBrainWonderComedyGroupsSpecialCuriosityFortitudeSometimes I WonderEthnic Groups Author:Debra Granik
“Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenBookLiteratureNamesWonderWrittenSpecialDeterminedLabelsBotherMen WomenSentimentalityChildren's BooksSidelinesChildren's LiteratureKangaroos Author:P. L. Travers
“There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and proud of it. I'm here because I put in the time. I have the blisters on my fingers to prove it. It had nothing to do with coincidence, luck, or the activation of my Wonder Twin powers. I reset the game hundreds of times until my special attack finally went off perfectly. Victory was inevitable. So please, hold off on all the hero talk.” WholeBodyGuyGamesWonderBloodSpecialProudHeroVictoryPleaseProveOrdinaryPraiseLuckFingersInevitableTwinsSparesCoincidenceProve ItResetBlistersActivation Author:Hiroshi Sakurazaka
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” WorldHumansInterestPowerfulWonderSpecialCenturyDangerousPlanetsIndustryMassLogicPlantRememberedPropagandaPoisonConvinceDelusionHistorianDestroyingWorld HistoryFlawedCoalitionsSpecial InterestsCo2ToxinsUnrelenting Author:Richard Lindzen
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.” MenSportsWonderSpecialIntellectualLuxury Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.” PeopleIfsKindSaidSometimesFacesCoursesNextHouseWonderFourDoorsLandSpecialMajorityWineDinnerSavingOccasionsClockIf I CouldCanadaFedsBreakfastBottlesThey SaidNext DayTentsBikingBottles Of WineSpecial Occasion Author:Pam Houston
“My last thought in the night end with you and my morning smile is caused by your thought. I wonder if ever life would be so special without your love.” IfsEndsWould BeLastsNightWonderMorningSpecial Author:James Donald