Quotes About Wonder

He realized how little he knew, how unimaginably vast the universe was, and how its emptiness was only another word for mystery.

Look at the stars," said Tim. "Don't you ever wonder what they're for?" The Night was an open book of constellations. "They're for the same as everything else, "said Sam. They're just for themselves." The stars silently agreed.

Let's go again to Niag'ra,This time we'll look at the Fall.Let's leave our hut, Dear,Get out of our rut, Dear,Let's get away from it all.

Boredom is only for people who do not know themselves or the wonders of life.

John wondered if she would ever be so unthinkingly imperious again; whether her childish powers of command would survive the dislocation from home, the knowledge of her smallness in the greater world.

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.

Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.

There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'

We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

I want the audience to be transported to a different world once they enter the auditorium.

I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.