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Quotes About Amazement

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
~ Thomas Mann
He was in the far too familiar position of being amazed by his own stupidity.
~ Thomas Mullen
The whole world's at sixes and sevens, and why the house hasn't fallen down about our ears long ago is a miracle to me.
~ Thornton Wilder
To survive, a story must arouse wonder.
~ Thornton Wilder
I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
~ Tamzin Merchant
Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.
~ Evanna Lynch
But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy
~ Orhan Pamuk
If there is no awe, there is no audience.
~ Orson Scott Card
Christ in a crinoline!
~ Cormac McCarthy
Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.
~ D.H. Lawrence
As Rachel turned around to smile at her best friend, she saw a beautiful sight
~ Daisy Meadows
Surprised, Kirsty peered at the conveyor
~ Daisy Meadows
In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in the way but will lend a hand from simple curiosity and amazement.
~ Walker Percy
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
~ Walt Whitman
As to me,I know of nothing but miracles.
~ Walt Whitman
A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
~ Walt Whitman
And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.
~ Walt Whitman
Conserve la capacidad de asombro de un niño.
~ Walter Isaacson
stuck with him. He saw a calf being born, and he was amazed
~ Walter Isaacson
We are witnessing the physical and mental response, including amazement and reverence and curiosity, to an epiphany. Only the Virgin seems still, the calm in the vortex. Portraying the swirl of characters was a daunting task, perhaps too much so. Each had to have a unique pose and set of emotions. As Leonardo later wrote in his notebook, "Do not repeat the same movements in the same figure, be it limbs, hands or fingers, nor should the same pose be repeated in one narrative painting.
~ Walter Isaacson
Retain a childlike sense of wonder. At a certain point in life, most of us quit puzzling over everyday phenomena. We might savor the beauty of a blue sky, but we no longer bother to wonder why it is that color. Leonardo did. So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, "You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder years, or to let our children do so.
~ Walter Isaacson