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Quotes About Wonder

The Universe is wild
~ Aurora Aksnes
Don't forget to embrace and get closer to your inner child.
~ Aurora Berill
What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? ---- The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?
~ Author Unknown
To my amazement, I have heard that there are people who have never seen a gnome. I can't help pitying these people. I am certain there must be something wrong with their eyesight.
~ Axel Munthe
The wonder of the world The beauty and the power, The shapes of things, Their colours, lights and shades, These I saw. Look ye also while life lasts.
~ B.B.
I have come back once more to you all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ once more Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Ã¢â'¬Ëœ Pan paused, and in the silence not a foot moved or a wing rustled, 'and then I shall indeed be gone until that day when we shall all return, yes, all, gnomes and wild forgotten things alike, to the land where once we lived.
~ B.B.
I can't understand why anyone would ever leave here," he said if as captivated by their surroundings as she was. "It's...breathtaking." He pulled up to the house and cut the engine before he looked over at her. "Just like you.
~ B.J. Daniels
What were you doing out here?" He chuckled. "Looking for aliens. What else?
~ B.J. Daniels
Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.
~ Back to the Future
Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.
~ bacon francis ix
As for the passions, and studies of the mind; avoid envy, anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.
~ bacon francis xv
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
~ Jean Anouilh
When I finally turned 18, I started to wonder if rave was now different to what it was and whether I'd missed out on the golden days of rave. So, I thought I'd talk to some of the legends in the game and get an education on how music was made, listened to and the rave scene from before I was even born.
~ Becky Hill
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.
~ James Gray
It's always nice to remember that there was a time when I loved something that I didn't know much about; it just reached my ears and moved me.
~ Thomas Newman
I am living in the world that I always dreamed of. I am still not living in a world where you can teleport matter from one place to another just by atoms. We haven't reached there yet.
~ Twinkle Khanna
Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.
~ Nick Sagan
If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.
~ Sushant Singh Rajput
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
~ Terri Windling
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
~ Lev Grossman
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
~ Billy Collins
I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.
~ Russell Freedman
To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.
~ Ayobami Adebayo
As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.
~ Lily Collins