Quotes About Awe

There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.

What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

The service was delightful. We sensed again the awe of the first Christmas so long ago when God sent His most precious gift, His Son Jesus, into the world to be born of a woman so that someday, as a sacrifice, He could provide salvation for the whole human race.

And as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe.

extraordinary; I could almost see the Cambrian Mountains

On Central Park West, a woman searching for just the right superlative for the man who is guiding New York through the greatest disaster ever to hit an American city finally said, "He's not like a god; he is God." . . . He has achieved what political observers would have told you two weeks ago is impossible. He is not only respected, but revered. And not only revered

Podobno bardzo onieÅ›miela ludzi, gdy? nigdy nic nie mówi.

Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue.

What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous

Just look at it!

The stratosphere is my church.

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

I don't really get star struck.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.