Quotes About Awe

Too fair to worship too divine to love.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

I'll never forget when I heard Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs for the first time. I was just blown away, and it changed my whole approach to guitar.

The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.

I couldn't hold a candle to how adventurous Steve was. He found life intoxicating, and he was just in awe of every living creature.

It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

When I got to MSG, I had to look around and just take it in. I looked at the crowd and couldn't believe it. Instead of butterflies in my stomach, I had hawks!

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

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

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

I've been in electric storms in the mountains. Scary things.

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.

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

To the discovered, the discoverer can be a god.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Life in orbit is spectacular