Quotes About Wonder

Wasn't Pan sitting in a tree watching to see how I would comport myself? Wasn't his belly open, and wasn't he hunched over so that he seemed to be drinking from his own belly? But all this he did only so he could cock his eye and watch me, and the whole tree shook from his silent laughter when he saw that my thoughts were running away with me.

It is a splendid thing to exist sometimes.

Kaffe var som en drøm og et eventyr for Isak, en regnbue!

Is that for me? said he. - Yes, it's for you. He took it carefully in his hands, and stroked it. - Do you think it's nice? - Nice — why I could go round the world in such.

Men da tokayeren stod næsten urørt i glassene fik fru Julie champagne og frukt ind, druer, epler, fikener. Nei du store verden! Tænkte vel alle, og verten kunde endelig merke en snev av himelfaldenhet.

Chi ha contemplato una volta con i propri occhi la bellezza della natura non è destinato alla morte come pensa Platen, bensì alla natura stessa, di cui ha intravisto le meraviglie.

So am I going to get a zipper in my chest?

Would they no' wonder why we share a last name? Thank your sister Nix for that. You could have told them we were siblings! Like they'd believe that! When you're always seducing me with your eyes. I'm not—I never!

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.

So we choose to see miracles

I wonder how on earth I was lucky enough to find her.

I don't know the language or the laws and I'm completely unfamiliar with the currency . . . but, God, is it ever beautiful here.

She kept her youth to a marvelous degree. Perhaps this was because she always seemed to preserve that attitude of delighted surprise towards life which most of us leave behind in childhood, an attitude which not only made Rosemary herself seem young but flung a pleasing illusion of youth over the consciousness of everyone who talked to her.

Bough of a tree to the rain . . ." he turns the phrase over in his mouth as if it were fine wine, trying to guess its vintage, realizing somewhat indifferently that it is beyond him.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to marvel at.

Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the ape in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.

Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china. It was smooth, like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders

Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!

woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good. There were few

All the magic isn't in fairyland, he said gravely. There's lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the United States, where you and I once lived, as you can here.