Quotes About Amazement

I always remember sitting with my son, Anthony, at Arsenal one night and watching Barcelona during the warm-up. Messi launched this ball miles into the air and then killed it dead with his foot when it came back down. Anthony and I just looked at each other. Normal human beings aren't capable of doing that.

People stood at the edge, gaping foolishly, because they didn't believe it. The chasm was too big to understand.

But just look at her, he thought. How can there be this much treasure all in one place, and the world still here?

But in God's shadow I had been dazzled by the detour, amazed at the fraternity, and flabbergasted by the depth that comes from simplicity, from serving in a village that was shabby, green, and pulsing with life.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Going out into the world, I do feel like a kid in a candy store.

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

People never cease to amaze me.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.

Circus is the magic you should show your children.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

I am grateful for any following and am always surprised by it!

I want people to be surprised.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.

Why, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I'll be a snake's daddy. I'll be a mickey finn at a woman's-club lunch.

Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.

To become a person that occasionally, strangers want to reward because they've felt I've given them something, is an amazement. Once a young woman passing by an outdoor booth where I was signing books, burst into a spontaneous jig at the sight of me. And that might be the pinnacle of my career. To be somehow an occasion for someone else's exuberance.