Quotes About Wonder

Sebastian Boondoggle's upside-down magic allowed him to see invisible things, like radio waves and farts.

Sarah Mlynowski

Sarah Mlynowski

Sarah Mlynowski

I'm staring at Snow White. The real Snow White. I'm in her living room.

Of course I wondered if I was dreaming, but it seemed so real.

The Basics: The canals of Venice are a wonder to behold. There are no cars in Venice. There are no roads. Want to get somewhere? Walk, take a boat, or swim. Just kidding. Don't swim. The water's disgusting.

I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.

I don't know how to describe the magnificence of Carlsbad Caverns without making it sound like a cartoon or a drug trip or a cartoon of a drug trip. The only thing I can say is that it is one of those dear places that make you love the world.

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

But enough of that--here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.

Reading Sartre on the Middle East, I wonder whether he really knows what he is saying.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

Scott Weidensaul

There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

Call that a wonder, Cretan-born woman? 9970 Never listened when poetry Sang its sweet lessons? Ionia's and Hellas's Ancientest legends Of a gods-and-heroes abundance, Never heard them? Nothing that's done today's More than a pitiful Echo of glorious Ancestral days; 9980 Nothing, your story is, Compared with the lovely lie, More trustworthy than truth, That is sung about Maia's son.

How great a spectacle! But that, I fear, Is all it is.

Fairytale: presents impossible events under possible or almost impossible conditions as though they were possible.

Sind Götter! Wundersam eigen, Die sich immerfort selbst erzeugen, Und niemals wissen was sie sind.

Nas?l da çocuktur insan! Bir bak?? için nedir bu açgözlülük! Nas?l da çocuktur insan!

The highest achievement of the human being as a thinking being is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühen?