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Quotes About Wonder

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
~ Peter O'Toole
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.
~ Maria Montessori
If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
~ Pope Gregory I
When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
~ Amy Winehouse
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
~ Mary Oliver
I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.
~ Roberto Matta
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
~ Randy Pausch
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
~ Charles Churchill
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.
~ John Huston
I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
~ Thomas Moore
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
~ Derek Walcott
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
~ Martin Luther
I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.
~ Emily Dickinson
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"
~ Charles Darwin
All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
~ Duane Michals
I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.
~ George MacDonald
I like pop music, especially Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon - he's broken up with Art Garfunkel hasn't he? - but I can't study while pop music is playing.
~ Caroline, Princess of Hanover
Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
~ Andy Grammer
My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by how much was going on.
~ Jack Garratt
'As' by Stevie Wonder - it's the greatest song ever written, bro.
~ J.I.D
I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.
~ David Bailey
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
~ Guy Laliberte
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
~ Harvey Fierstein