Quotes About Wonder

Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.

beauty is terror, whatever we call beauty we quiver before it

White vividly recalled sitting "pop-eyed with wonder" at the edge of his chair while Roosevelt spoke "with a kind of dynamic, burning candor" about his plans.

Everything was of interest to him," marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, "people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future.

And when the dark comes, he will look up and out and see a little smudge of light that is a galaxy that exploded millions of years ago, and the oppression that had gripped his heart lifts, and he laughs, and he calls his wife and says: Look, we are seeing something that ceased to exist millions of years ago—and she sees, exactly, and laughs with him.

What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life's wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.

It was a miracle, and it partook of the first property of miracles. It should never have been performed.

I sometimes wonder," said Francis Crawford, "if I only exist to be sacrificed to." Her heart beating strongly, she watched him. "Perhaps," she said. "But if you accept sacrifices, you must respond with acts of reparation.

He received another kiss which led him to wonder, hopefully, if the English bastard at the Hôtel d'Hercule was dying.

I mean, have you ever stopped to realize - not just the miracle that life is - but how basically comic it is despite its griefs? The wonder of it, as Amman Singh says, is that we take it so seriously. One day, poised on my tightrope, I hope to manage a glorious cartwheel, or at the very least a pirouette.

A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said.

Ah! childhood! You're living the happiest days of your life, young man. You won't believe me, but you are.

Ain't she the snail's ankles?' asked Mr da Soto admiringly.

If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Well, well. Isn't it a small world? And a peach of a world, too. A true little corker.

El aburrimiento se cura con curiosidad. La curiosidad no se cura con nada.

Lekiem na nud? jest ciekawo??. Na ciekawo?? nie ma leku.

La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

Who is this god person anyway?

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.