Quotes About Wonder

I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I listen to all types of music, but big rock records are the ones that, in the walk-up, make me wonder, 'What's this next set going to sound like?'

Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.

I work on the types of movies that I would have loved watching as a kid.

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

Some of the best scientists can't explain gravity; Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, in the end, do they even know?

There's never an ugly bubble.

I've never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They're all beautiful. They're like jewels, transient jewels.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

I've always been in love with the stars and view the cosmos as the ultimate adventure.

Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

I can't imagine how unbelievable it would be to go to the Great Barrier Reef.

I don't know much about 'Katy Keene,' but it sounds unbelievable.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

A story is a wondrous invention.

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder