Quotes About Wonder

There is a child in all of us.

I had an amazing childhood.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

I have a childlike spirit.

I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.

Circus is the magic you should show your children.

I don't claim to have all the answers about how the afterlife works.

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting.

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.

I mean, I totally believe in magic and superstition.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

For me, I like to have mystery in the surf films.

The stream at the end of your street can be a place where you make contact with this whole other amazing world hidden right there beneath the surface. Fishing can be the passport to that world.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.