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- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
- Bible, Samuel i. 26.
- For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
- Bible, Psalm cxxxix. 14.
- I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.
- Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
- 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
- I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
- Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- The notion of picking one time of year to be decent to other people is obscene because it's actually validating the notion of being miserable wretches the rest of the year.
- Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
- Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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