Quotes About Wonder

I was flying home from LA and all of a sudden I looked out at the clouds and I realized, Jesus we are really flying, and it was the most wonderful and miraculous thing, and about a minute later the feelings of anxiety and panic begin. I feel the same way about marriage, today.

Muttering a curse, he wiped his face with a towel and wondered why everyone suddenly felt that they had to offer an opinion on his love life, although he was fairly sure he had never asked for anyone's views on the matter.

A dream-like state enveloped us, days filled with sunlight, the creamy churn of waves as the ship plunged and reared like a mettlesome horse, the flash of silver spray against our faces and, at night, a canopy of white-hot stars in blackness so deep it seemed as if I could stretch out my hand and plunge it wrist-deep into the velvet of it.

Una mattina presto trovo Realm sulla porta che dà sul retro, con un gran sorriso stampato sulla faccia. [...] Lui apre la controporta, lasciando entrare una brezza leggera che profuma d'erba. Guardo fuori e sgrano gli occhi: ci sono sei cervi nel nostro giardino, tra cui un cucciolo. Sono bellissimi. Faccio un passo verso di loro e mi posa un braccio sulle spalle. - A volte ci scordiamo che le cose belle esistono - bisbiglio.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.

Who doesn't want to fly around in a spaceship?

Be inspire to explore your world.

We could love and not be suckers. We could dream and not be losers. It was such a beautiful time. Everything was possible because we didn't know anything yet.