#wondered

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#always #am #bats #brain #dolphins

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times. ↗

— Curt Flood

#ever #happened #i #i do #many

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #black #capitalist #center #century

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. ↗

— William Manchester

#dead #end #evermore #i #like

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#first #first time #gone #had #how

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#continuing #education #i #my own #own

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.' ↗

— Donny Osmond

#been #football #go #guys #i

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#away #change #considerable #fighting #friends

What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don't we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. ↗

— Henry Reed

#asleep #childhood #fall #go #happens