Quotes About Wonder

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

I've learned to respect the whimsical.

Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing.

I'd love to whip back to the 20s for thirty minutes, just to have a look.

Honestly, I've been asking myself how it would feel to be Princess Leia since I was seven years old.

My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.

When you're a little girl, you kind of gravitate towards all of the princesses and things.

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

I like the probability of the impossible.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.