Quotes About Wonder

My mum took me to see 'The Wizard of Oz' when I was about three and I was blown away.

Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

When people spot Fallon in public, they do not shriek or drool or go wobbly in the knees. It's a different look entirely. A tilt of the head, mouth agape, eyebrows rolled like you do when you see a puppy.

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god!

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

They say miracles are past.

As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

You can't really explain why things happen.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

I want people to be transported by the hotel. I'm thinking, What is it that would make people be delighted and amazed?

I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.

The bubbles are thinner than wavelengths of light.

I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

I had a thirst for knowledge. I was always curious about stuff.

I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!