Quotes About Wonder

I judge a novel by whether or not it turns my blood into starlight.

I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I've often told people who ask if there is a God: "Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things that they do, and you'll become a believer!

Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.

Fast-Fish? What

Good Lord! is this the road that Jonah went?

Las cosas más maravillosas son siempre aquellas que no pueden expresarse, los recuerdos más sentidos no dejan epitafios.

Las cosas mas maravillosas son siempre las inexpresables.

Qué son los comprensibles terreros del hombre comparados con los terrores y prodigios entremezclados de Dios?

Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind. A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.

But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?

By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

Quién puede trazar la línea donde termina el violeta y donde empieza el naranja en el arcoíris?

screws on the cowlings. Only a divine miracle

Henry wondered all through the meal whether Warren

o iš negirdim? mano b?ties gelmi? v?l pakyla nuostaba: setbiuosi, kad esu žmogus, žmogus miške, per rasas ir per dien? žengiantis žmogus, jau pamiršt?s vakarykšt? liet? ir šiandienos saul?, pats tuojs išgaruosiantis rasos lašas, pats pasijunt?s gegut?s kukavimu, ir strazdo giesme, pats sklindantis nuo vieno krašto iki kito ir sugr?žtantis tik kur?ioje tyloje.

It is the closest place to the stars on Earth. (Kalkan)

If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man's destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.

Achilleus started awake, staring,        and drove his hands together, and spoke, and his words were sorrowful:        Ã¢â'¬Å"Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something,        a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it.

Algo me incitaba a buscar en el cielo algunas nubes, ya que se había apoderado de mí una inexplicable aprensión acerca de los infinitos e insondables espacios etéreos.