Quotes About Wonder

One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

When you're working with a big star, you always wonder what it's going to be like. Hugh Jackman puts you at ease within 10 minutes. He has such a wonderful energy and is so generous when you're doing a scene. He's just so funny and friendly and playful - he instantly becomes your friend.

There's something just magical about flight. Period.

We created out own little world when we were kids and that's what's so special about Donegal. You can create whatever you imagine here. There's so much nature to let your imagination take flight.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

Everybody kind of fantasizes about it, flying.

The magic's back, folks.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things.

The best player I've played with is Adam Lallana. I just think he's quality. He's both footed. When I was playing with him at Southampton I kept asking him what foot he is. He said 'I'm both.' I was like well everyone's dominant one foot and he was like 'no I'm both.'

It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand.

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.

I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

It still amazes me that everyone is so crazy about what we are doing. Maybe I am just dreaming but people seem to really freak out at what we are doing. I don't know why.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

We stare at the wonders of the world, dulled-eyed, underwhelmed.