Quotes About Amazement

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Yeah! shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. What's the matter? Hamilton challenged. Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?

And there was her miracle.

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

When something actually shocks me, that's when you know it's a great topic.

Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel. Let him be stunned. Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

she'll freak when she sees you!

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

I have seen the greatest beauty. The wonders of the world, and the wonders of my eye.

When the Penguins arrived on Sunday from Boston, he wandered around Times Square with some of his teammates. He couldn't get over the lights and noise that never ceased. "It's a lot bigger than Cole Harbour," he said.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

I could not possibly have imagined anything more wonderful if I had tried.

Awfully?" she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. "I am full of awe," he explained.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. --from WHEN DEATH COMES

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say Look! and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.