Quotes About Wonder

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

I truly love science fiction; it's feeling you're something more than your present position in the world.

Film is a truly magical medium.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know.

Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.