Quotes About Wonder

Be the necklace-fire of stars, The cauterizing lightning. Bewilder us with good.

Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.

What a tragic irony, that the more we understand of biology, the less we have of it to learn from and enjoy. What will be the legacy of this new century - to cherish and to protect Nature or to see butterflies and zebras and much more vanish into legend like the thylacine, moa and dodo?

The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

We talk about "awe and wonder," but those are two different words. I am in awe of the universe: its scope, its complexity, its depth, its meticulous precision. But my primary feeling is wonder. Awe has connotations of reverence: "this fills me with awe and I am not worthy." Wonder has connotations of curiosity: "this fills me with wonder and I am going to figure it out." I will take wonder over awe every day.

If you go to a really great shop that stocks really great stuff and it doesn't makes it feel like a super secret club there's tons of stuff to find all way time.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.