Quotes About Awe

If I could just somehow let you see yourself through my eyes. I guarantee your feet would never touch the ground again.

If Tom Mix had just stepped from Olympus, the boys could not be more impressed.

Chien was careful to avoid debates over science and faith. To him, wonder was wonder and did not require further complications.

Be the necklace-fire of stars, The cauterizing lightning. Bewilder us with good.

Useless to think you'll park and capture it More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. "Postscript

You are like a rich man entering heaven/through the ear of a raindrop.

The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.

We talk about "awe and wonder," but those are two different words. I am in awe of the universe: its scope, its complexity, its depth, its meticulous precision. But my primary feeling is wonder. Awe has connotations of reverence: "this fills me with awe and I am not worthy." Wonder has connotations of curiosity: "this fills me with wonder and I am going to figure it out." I will take wonder over awe every day.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I'll count that as meeting.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Everything to do with time is hideous.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull'd, or by the storm-blasts driv'n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it. It was well worth it.

In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. It appeared to pierce the skies. It was nearly three hundred feet high. In those days I pondered the subject much, but I never could understand why it did not swathe its summit with never-failing clouds, and crown its majestic brow with everlasting snows. I had heard that such was the custom of great mountains in other parts of the world.