Quotes About Wonder

What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

And sometimes when you witness a miracle it makes you believe that anything is possible.

If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.

Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?

What was it, I wondered, that we had then that we could revive now?

Sometimes I wonder if love is enough, or if there are levels of love.

It was nothing short of marvelous the way the world worked out.

The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity

Hey, our hair's the same color, I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend. Eric grinned at me. But are you blond all the way down? Don't you wish you knew? Yes, he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder. I am, he said. Blond everywhere, I could tell as much from your chest hair. He raised my arm to check my armpit. You silly women, shaving your body hair, He said, dropping my arm.

You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all.

Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing.

It was one of those nights that made me wonder how the humans around me could be so oblivious to the other world operating right beside ours. Only willful ignorance could ignore the charge of magic in the air. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.