Quotes About Wonder

There's so much stuff in the sea that we ain't never seen before.

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

When kids ask questions there is a painful honesty at times and they will ask things that throw me.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Magic is my paint.

There are some galaxies that not only teach us things but are just gorgeously beautiful to look at. My favorite example is the Antenne, which is a pair of colliding galaxies.

Children are the keys of paradise.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal.

One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.

For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.

When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

There are so many amazing parts to life, so many amazing things to write about.

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

Wonder-Working Providences of Sion's Saviour in New England

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.