Quotes About Wonder

On the trail from Namche Bazaar, you come up and you see this big mountain, Ama Dablam. Wow! I just started thinking, what would it feel like to be on the top of that mountain? What would you be able to see?

I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.

Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!'

I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they're light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We're seeing intriguing things, but we really don't know what's in there.

When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.

I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Where shall I say you've gone? She threw an arm about airily. Oh, way up high. Over the rainbow somewhere, I guess.

Is it only in childhood that we are capable of taking in the whole world? What does it do to us that we briefly have that privilege? And, then, what harm , when the fund of novelty in human experience runs dry?

Aren't these the finest treasures? Each one springs up, and becomes more red than rubies, more fine than diamonds adn more valuable, so we are told; and before you can run back here again to look, the petals have begin to drop and the leaves to yellow. Look, they sag, they fall. Are they the more wonderful because they live such a short time.

What a world I've come up through, said Liir to himself. Oh, what a world, what a world.

In my raveling thoughts I flew away, as if my spirit were nestled in the breast feathers of some passing hornbill or waxwing.

What was a miracle but an enchantment conferred for someone's good?

But look at that beautiful angel there! Do you really mean to say you don't believe in the Other Land? In an afterlife?' 'Just what we need.' Elphaba snorted as she picked up the tome. 'A post Vale-of-Tears Vale-of-Tears'.

Can you really say you thought the man who brought this here was a sorcerer? said Elphie. And that this book comes from - another world? Do you even believe in other worlds? I find it a great effort to believe in this one, said Sarima, yet it seems to be here, so why should I trust my skepticism about other worlds? Don't you believe?