#wonder

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers. ↗

— Pat Brown

#catches #doing #fine #investigators #killers

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist. ↗

— Harry Browne

#i #important #important people #me #most

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#books #children #day #doing #drawings

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#anything #appointments #arrivals #checks #chris

I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet. ↗

— Brooke Burke

#bed #care #definitely #feel #feet

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#need #quiet #remember #than #them

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#growing-up #narrow-mindedness #open-mindedness #wonder #kids

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me! ↗

— Bram Stoker

#fear #terror #wonder #terrorism

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. ↗

— China Miéville

#reading #sense-of-wonder #fantasy