Quotes About Wondered

but he wondered how many others had seen the loneliness in her expression when she wasn't guarding it.

I wondered whether, if Kierkegaard had been a Catholic, they would have made him a saint by now, and built a basilica over his grave. He would make a good patron saint of neurotics.

Face-cream, hand-cream, nose-cream, eye-cream. I wondered for a moment how serious it would be if you ever got home drunk and accidentally put face-cream on your hands or hand-cream on your face.

Tom wondered if his ranch had become a testing ground for advanced military equipment.

Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered. Then he recalled who it was who had a child. A child, Noirot had a child!

He wondered idly, as he flew onward, pursuing the distant form of the Queen, if he could somehow watercraft the portion of his brain that had advised this idiotic course of action. Clearly, it was defective.

It came to her that in the scenario of her life this would be what was called an obligatory scene, and she wondered with distant interest just how long the scene would play.

I just wondered why God hasn't ever delivered chocolate ice cream to me.

I wondered briefly if cats also came back after death, then dismissed the thought because as far as I had ever been able to tell, cats do not have a purpose.

The rest of the evening I wondered, every second, if he would come back with some friends and make something painful and degrading happen.

He could imagine himself some demon of the air, taking wing to haunt the dreams of a man, seize upon a sleeping body and ride it—could he fly as far as England? he wondered. Was the night long enough?

Not for the first time, I wondered just what kind of work Frank had done during the War. He certainly seemed to know a lot about maneuvering soundlessly in the dark.

What is pulpo?" he asked, returning to the office and sitting down opposite Malcolm. "Octopus," Malcolm replied, emerging from the folds of a linen towel with which he'd been wiping dirt from his face. "Why?" "Just wondered.

He wondered how a dog no bigger than a loaf of bread had accomplished so much damage in a matter of moments.

When she first came to Three Pines, Myrna had wondered whether Ruth had had a stroke. Sometimes, Myrna knew from her practice, stroke victims had very little impulse control. When she asked about it, Clara said if Ruth had had a stroke it was in the womb. As far as she knew, Ruth had always been like this.

The Chief Inspector wondered whether a coat of paint and new appliances could exorcise demons, and whether the Catholic Church knew about that.

him betting. Taff and the others could hardly be persuaded not to accept such easy pickings, which left the source of the cash, Harry Gilbert himself. Precisely what, I wondered

He knew time and day of week and wondered when such scraps of data would begin to feel disposable.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

I have long wondered something," I said. 'When we fought over Athena, how did you know to kneel to me? That it would shame me?' "Ah, it was a guess. something Odysseus said about you once." 'Which was?' "That the had never met a god who enjoyed their divinity less.

Whatever had happened, she wondered, to the concept of reading as entertainment? Now it appeared to be an endurance contest as to how many pages the reader could get through without throwing up. (Lorinda, chapter 1)

For a long time, humans have wondered about the possibility of intelligent life on other planets while ignoring the intelligent life on this one. Orcas have a language and a culture that predates ours, so how do we justify imprisoning them or, more importantly, destroying their habitat?

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge f