Quotes About Wonder

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

But for a four-year-old, everything is sacred and ordinary.

sometimes we have to "live the question," not push for the answer.

For twenty-eight years of Baby Mol's life, the sun has never failed to come up, yet every morning she's ecstatic at its return. To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

I denied it, this new land. But love, I'll concede this: whatever state you are, I'll be that state's bird, the loud, obvious blur of song people point to when they wonder where it is you've gone.

The true and serious beauty of trees, how it seemed insane that they should offer this to us, how unworthy we were, bewildered, how soon we were nearly weeping at their trunks as they tossed down petal after petal, and we tried to remember how it felt to receive and notice the receiving, pink, pink, pink, pink, pink.

It's worth it, I thought. Just for this, for a few moments of the almost sublime, even if I had to half talk my way into it, and allow myself the cliché of being impressed by Niagara Falls.

Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

I saw an exhibition of paintings of alchemists once,' said Ruth. 'It used to be a popular setpiece. There was one I liked by Joseph Wright of Derby?of an alchemist who'd accidentally discovered phosphorus. He's just crouching there, staring in amazement at his test tube or alembic, or whatever you call it. A bloody good painting, actually.

They have all sipped from the Drink Me bottle. They have all unwound the clew of red thread. They have all fallen through the looking glass.

His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?

why should the wild child weep for the scientists why

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

It was crazy to say that I have the guidance of Paul Heyman out of all these people. Eight-year-old real me is like, is this real life?

Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.

That was always our favorite type of story, and that's the stuff we fell in love with. The peak of those type of ordinary-meets-extraordinary stories was in the '80s.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!