Quotes About Awe

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

Children in wonder watching the stars, Is the aim and the end.

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the sky.

a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

An engagement is so potent a thing that sooner or later it reduces all who speak of it to this state of cheerful awe.

The world," she thought, "is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder." - Eberhard Arnold

Like I said, she always amazes me.

Somewhere out there, there's a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (A Shadow Passes)

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships.

But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I'll lie And look my fill into the sky. And so I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall. The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And — sure enough! — I see the top! The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, posess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally...

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

There is something about the desert.… There is something there which the mountains, no matter how grand and beautiful, lack; which the sea, no matter how shining and vast and old, does not have.