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“If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.”

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Author:Phylicia Rashad

“People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.”

People Knows Men Looks Different Eye Dies Wonder Watches Aging Old Man Different Peoples Mourn

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?”

Ifs Thinking Want Done Race Wonder Watches Television Olympics

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.”

Ifs Way Giving President Ability Wonder Watches Violence Modern Despair Pope Pits Casual Slaughterhouses Butchery

Book:Carrion Comfort

Source: Carrion Comfort

“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.”

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Author:Barry B. Longyear

“My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.”

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Author:David Copperfield

“I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.”

People Thinking Should Trying Light Wonder Watches Shadow Target Seduction Chamber Interrogation Bright Lights

Author:Anna Funder

“...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.”

Knows Way Science Universe Simple Wonder Watches Effects Consequence Mathematics Captured

Author:Stephen Wolfram

“One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself....instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.”

Children Important Helping Responsibility Wonder Watches Worry Our Children Important Things Your Children Taking Responsibility Fascination

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls?”

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

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Author:John Michael Hayes

“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?”

Men Humans May Stills Sometimes Earth Asks Animal Poor Wonder Watches Late Flight Aviation Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.”

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Author:Charles Lindbergh

“If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.”

Ifs Littles Sex Wonder Watches Stronger Fingers Twists

Author:James Thurber

“When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'”

Play Bigs Kids Wish Wonder Watches Football Tvs Pro Football

Author:Terrell Owens

“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.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak

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