"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
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"There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder."
"So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom."
"For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing."
"Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience."
"I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder."
"I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything."
"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
"What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture."
"You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory."
"Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?"
"Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?"
"It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof."
"If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder."
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."
"Wonder is not precisely knowing."
"I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder."
"What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!"
"Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!"
"I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone."