Quotes About Wonder

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

I loved the world of imagination.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

I feel ashamed of how many houses I've actually crept inside of when they were up for sale. I'm not a snoop, but I love looking and imagining.

'Room' was a very dark movie, but 'Wonder' is a fun, light movie that sends out an important message. There is a big difference.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

India is just amazing.

But will science ever account for it all? That I leave to God.

I was reminded of the Winchester Mystery House, which I'd seen as a child on a trip with my parents. From above, there was the same sort of random conglomeration—peaked roofs connected to flat roofs, shakes and shingles, tarpaper and skylights—and I realized that Frank had constructed his house from the town, connecting the buildings until they made one enormous edifice. "Jesus," I breathed.

She gazes up at the sky through the window. 'Come to think of it, wouldn't it be brilliant if we could stop time when we felt like it, catch up on stuff and then slip back into it?

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.