Quotes About Wonder

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment.

I love the innocent way my kids see the world.

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Ever since I was a kid and watched magicians on stage, like David Copperfield or Siegfried and Roy, I instantly knew how they did everything. In my head, it just all worked.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

At the time, I didn't think it was a tragedy, Zack's fall, but later I wondered if the tragedies in life are only about when you could have been great but weren't.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy", says Blake, who possessed in an eminent degree this form of sacramental perception, "is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the Way.

I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

He had moved amid her phantasmagoria, Amid her galaxies

I stood still and was a tree amid the wood, Knowing the truth of things unseen before; Of Daphne and the laurel bow And that god-feasting couple old that grew elm-oak amid the wold. 'Twas not until the gods had been Kindly entreated, and been brought within Unto the hearth of their heart's home That they might do this wonder thing; Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood And many a new thing understood That was rank folly to my head before.