Quotes About Wonder

I look up at John Paul's bedroom and think, If his bed is near the window, he can watch clouds soaring past the cupola - huge anvils of cumulus, pale and full of shoulders. The wind slowly tears them to shreds. Thin blades of light slip through and touch down everywhere.

I wouldn't trade the twenty-first century for any other. We have toilet paper and pasteurization and Novocain and Mexican avocados all winter long. And plenty of mysteries remain: what causes premature labor, or what exactly the universe is made of. The biology of deep oceans, the nature of gravity, the reason we sleep, the mechanisms of migration; thousands of questions still await answers.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

Art reveals to us the mysteries of our existence, or perhaps reveals to us for the first time that there are mysteries at all.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

Girl never see to know from me Who was the fairest of them all. What wouldst thou say if I asked thee: Where is the snow we watched last Fall?

I love life because what more is there?

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

Anthony Horowitz

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

How could you not wish to see what tomorrow brings? How could you not want to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, to eat ice cream in the Piazza Navona, to watch the children throwing coins into the fountain?

She really was the genie to my Aladdin, although as far as I could recall, I had never rubbed the magic lamp.

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

I'm basically a dancer and cinema just happened to me, sometimes I still wonder how I could become an actor. My friends too keep asking how I pulled it off.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.