Quotes About Amazement

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

FAPO- for amazement purposes only

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

I don't know why he's doin' it. Don't expect I ever will. But it sure is something, huh?

Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.

To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself in us. That peace could only be amazement, too.

People talk about how wonderful the world must seem to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. That's clearer to me every day. Each morning I am like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes.

I can imagine him beyond the world, looking back at me with an amazement of realization—This is why we have lived this life! There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

I had a dream once that I was preaching to Jesus Himself, saying any foolish thing I could think of, and He was sitting there in His white, white robe looking patient and sad and amazed.

I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.

Mortality is like the cold. It cannot be altered by human conceit or solidarity, and at the end you will be on your knees, in shock and amazement, and then you'll have only one sword, one shield, one great thing to carry you through. Alessandro waited to hear what that was, but his father would not say. If you don't discover it yourself, it will be nothing more than an exhortation from me.

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

CHAPTER XXVII 'WONDERFUL BIRD!

There was awe, and there was also incredulity—sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.

His name, said the cabman, was Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman's reply. For an instant he sat in silent amazement. Then he burst into a hearty laugh.

Wonderful! I ejaculated.

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.

I am caught in a kind of wonder, I am still with joy.

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

The surprising objects that you see when you leave your own Grand Republic and go traveling—pink snakes and polar bears—are nothing beside what you find when you stay at home and have a new girl and meet her friends, whose resentment of you is only less than your amazement that there are such people and that she likes them.

gaze at it in bewilderment. How can something so perfect just be waiting for me? Did the Christmas-present gods see me coming?