Quotes About Wonder

If we had never seen fishes, we should be at a loss to understand how any living beings could exist In the sea.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.

It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Cammie: I never knew there were this many stars. Zach: I can't see them. I just see you.

Beyond the wall, the sea stretches out, dark and vast, and I know why – once upon a time – it would have been easy to think the world was flat.

Keep an eye out for caves," she told Logan. "And sometimes you can crawl into the big trees, nest in around the roots. But we have to be careful." "Because of bears?" Logan asked. "And wolves," she said. "Wolves like places like that." "Oh. There are wolves now. Yay," Logan said.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

The term gift designates events, apparitions, and things whose grandeur and graciousness remove them from practices of appropriation—from measurement, categorization, and seizure.

My eyes darted between them, and even thoygh I was brimming with questions, it's like I had so many I had no idea where to begin. All I knew for sure was that I was going back. Back to the earth plane. The glorious earth plane!

Comme les rêves sont cruels, qui nous laissent entrevoir des merveilles pour mieux nous en priver !

l'amour est un grâce, et le grâce est le mystère par excellence

Me atraía la idea de no saber si iba a ver pintura, escultura o una retrospectiva de cachivaches varios. Uno siempre debería acudir a las exposiciones así, por azar, con absoluta ignorancia. Alguien desea mostrarnos algo: eso es lo único que importa.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

You could look at something a hundred times from space, but the next time you come around the world, suddenly it's very different and gorgeous-looking, just because of the change of weather or the angle of the sun.

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.