Best wonder & surprise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.”

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Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.”

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Author:Washington Irving

“Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing and essentially trailers, the way trailers have evolved encouraging people not to see the film unless they've already seen the film which is kind of the paradox of marketing these days anytime that you enjoy genuine sense of wonder and surprise in the movies it's priceless.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.”

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Author:Robert Holden

“Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that it's possible to see something beautiful.”

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Book:If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

Source: If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

“There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.”

Ifs Thinking Want Country Wonder Miracle Surprise Living In The Country

Author:Terry Gilliam

“The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.”

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Book:American Beauty: The Shooting Script

Source: American Beauty: The Shooting Script

“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.”

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Author:Edward Hopper

“I'm thrilled that Wonder Woman and that character endures because every actor wants a role that has some positive affect and causes people to smile or have good memories and to endure. It doesn't just go away, fade away. It's been 25 years that it's been off the air and so it still surprises me when younger people recognize me or know my work.”

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Author:Lynda Carter

“The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.”

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Author:Ken Poirot

“A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.”

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Author:Terry Teachout

“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.”

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Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.”

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Author:Damian Kulash

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