Quotes About Wonder

and she was beautiful, a beautiful, strange adventure just waiting to happen.

We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the fairy. It's the child who is the fairy.

Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.

Naught but love makes magic real.

The city of Jahilia is built entirely of sand, its structures formed of the desert whence it rises. It is a sight to wonder at: walled, four-gated, the whole of it a miracle worked by its citizens, who have learned the trick of transforming the fine white dune-sand of those forsaken parts, - the very stuff of inconstancy, - the quintessence of unsettlement, shifting, treachery, lack-of-form, - and have turned it, by alchemy, into the fabric of their newly invented permanence.

Their curled bodies are a pair of question mark at the end of the puzzling sentence of the day

It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours. I own that I am lost in wonder to find myself promoted to an honor of which I feel myself unworthy—

I have seen the heavens open, the sea rage and foam, the storm rise in a patch of sky and like a gigantic eagle beat the two horizons with its wings.

Dac? e vorba de spectacol, îmi place mai mult s? privesc aceast? îngr?m?dire de copaci negri, printre care scânteie ici-colo câte-o lumini?? care trece ca un ochi înroÈ™it, când deschis, când închis.

Where did I meet him before - this buckbasket of fat, this full-moon face of purple, and this carriage of a sacred elephant?

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

He then closed his eyes as children do in order that they may see in the resplendent night of their own imagination more stars than are visible in the firmament;