Quotes About Wonder

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!

Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.

When you work on a film, it's important to feel that you are starting afresh and doing it for the first time. Also, it's important to have those butterflies in your stomach; you need to wonder how you are going to approach the character and whether you will be able to do justice to the part.

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

I'm not a one-hit wonder. When you look at my background, I think I've been successful at all stops along the way. I know the kind of responsibility it takes to be a head football coach.

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

It's only supernatural if nature doesn't allow it," he said.

How are things on the edge of space?

The secret world she had entered danced to a different song.

One of the most characteristic Italian emotions, it seems to me, is that mixture of envy, perplexity and wonder that comes when one realises that others are working the system far more effectively than oneself - said com'è? - this together with the knowledge that they are doing so and will continue to do so with absolute impunity. Until it dawns on you that the system was invented in order to be worked in this way.

What is that curling flower of wonder As white as snow, as red as blood? When Death goes by in flame and thunder And rips the beauty from the bud.

Contrails. Also helicopters. Skydivers. Basically everything

You couldn't ask more of a miracle than it was willing to give.

Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.