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Quotes About Amazement

It always astonishes me when anybody does anything
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was consumed with wonder by her presence.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I wake up and look in the mirror and am like, 'Whoa!' I don't know if I'm having more fun, but I'm having a lot of fun.
~ Natalia Dyer
I want to make a movie where people are, like, 'Whoa.'
~ Stephen Dorff
You know, I've never been in Huntington during the U.S. Open. I've been practicing down there for a few days and have watched as they set the area up. It amazed me at how early they begin the setup and what a terrific job they've done. It's a monster production, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
~ Karch Kiraly
To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.
~ Robert Rankin
Surprise!-FitzChivalry
~ Robin Hobb
Oh my God. Oh my God," Lyrica whispered, waving her hands in front of her face as she stared at him, eyes wide. "Dawg's gonna have pups when he finds out about this.
~ Lora Leigh
instinctive daddy reflex, the same move that had probably saved me from breaking my neck or hurtling to my death a hundred times, only I'd never seen it in action from this angle before, and I was amazed at its speed and precision. Too bad he didn't have an arm like that he could use to save himself.
~ Ruth Ozeki
You look like a cat touching a mirror," said Carol, watching me. "You know the way they look at themselves and then reach out a paw as if they can't believe it's glass and not another cat?
~ Ruth Reichl
You're getting a sort of vaccination this year. If you don't know it now, you'll find it out some day. But it's going to keep you from dying of a terrible disease. Lucinda was filled with amazement… What is the disease, Uncle Earle? she asked solemnly. Snobbishness-priggishness-the Social Register. I don't care a damn what you call it, Snoodie, as long as you get your antitoxin before the disease gets you.
~ Ruth Sawyer
It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.
~ Salman Rushdie
Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.
~ Peter Drucker
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
~ Alice Hoffman
Lydia went over and handed him a paper napkin. Conner stared at the napkin as if it were something delivered directly from the moon.
~ Alice Hoffman
Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.
~ Alice Hoffman
The moon came up through the black trees on top of the rocks, and looked so huge, so solemn and thrilling, that there were cries of amazement. What's that? And even when it had climbed higher in the sky and shrunk to a more normal size people acknowledged it from time to time, saying 'the harvest moon' or 'did you see it when it first came up?
~ Alice Munro
despair cannot share the same space as wonder
~ Alice Walker
Amazed Generation! Found Generation! Diamond Generation! Brainwashed Generation! Amnesiac T.V. Bureaucracy Voidoids! New Wave Punk Generation! Neutron Bomb blast Babies! Apocalypse Spermatozoa! Did you grow up imbibing Microchip sex waters? Will you marry me in the next Millennium? Must I wait for the Great Year? - Listening to Susan Sontag
~ Allen Ginsberg
La gente guardaba silencio como en presencia de un milagro; el espanto y el terror habían atado todas las lenguas.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People like the feeling they get when they think they've stumbled upon something miraculous. It's a proven fact.
~ Ami McKay
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize;
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
~ Katherine Mansfield