Quotes About Wonder

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Life is a pretty awesome ride.

Dave Filoni is a bit of a magician. Nothing is by accident.

I daydream all the time.

You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

The wonder, especially about the 'New Mutants' is, they're all kids. They're all growing. They're changing, literally, from page to page in terms of character and approach, past, present, and future. As a writer, that's the most delicious thing to play with.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.