Quotes About Wonder

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

Look up and we're all looking at the same sky.

We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Ma gavte la nata.

It's so beautiful.

How beautiful the world is, and how ugly labyrinths are,' I said, relieved. 'How beautiful the world would be if there was a procedure for moving through labyrinths,' my master replied.

For him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

Anything was possible if the impossible was true.

Est ubi gloria nunc Babyloniae?

That was when I saw the Pendulum.

The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than the catalogue, an instrument of wonderous hypotyposis.

universe to be questioned or understood. All that a mere man could do, it seemed to Jurgis, was to take a thing like this as he found it, and do as he was told; to be given a place in it and a share in its wonderful activities was a blessing to be grateful for, as one was grateful for the sunshine and the rain.

She said, on another day, I do think about the individuals involved, all of them and I sometimes wonder what they really felt at certain moments, I think all of them were very courageous people. Each of them displayed some kind of courage in making the changes that they did make.

adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Then Raghu's son, as if in sport, Before the thousands of the court, The weapon by the middle raised That all the crowd in wonder gazed.

Un poema sólo es tal cuando existe en lo habitual. Desde el momento en que un poema se convierte en algo habitual, no emociona, no maravilla, no inquieta más, y deja, por lo tanto, de ser un poema, pues inquietar, maravillar, emocionar nuestras raíces es lo propio de la poesía.

and life, Mr. Finchley discovered, was nothing if it did not hold adventure and romance.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.