Quotes About Awe

When I was in high school we had the first shuttle launch, and it reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the space program. I was in awe of the space shuttle as such a tremendous machine taking people into space. It seemed like such a wonderful thing that I wanted to be a part of.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

Wonders will never cease.

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

I have no words to express and completely speechless to talk about him. I am a big fan of Vidyut.

I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me up.

Being around greatness is always a thrill.

Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In

What a glorious morning is this!

A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.