Top 1200 Awe And Wonder Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

It's a wonder our country doesn't implode.

Wonder Woman is one of my favorite superheroes.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

If you lose wonder, you've lost everything.

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

People have come up and told me they were WCW fans from the early '90s, or they were watching my work in FCW when I first started in the late '80s, and they'll spit out a match of mine that they still remember. I stand there in awe, shocked that someone still remembers.

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.

I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.

Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.

I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has once been associated with worship becomes holy in itself, and self-perpetuating, always built upon the foundation of mingled awe and attraction which the unknown has for the mind of man.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

When I was a kid, I thought I was Wonder Woman.

Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

Wonder is retained by wise pondering.

Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing. It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe. And inhabit the landscape without violation. With the least violation.

Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.

I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.

There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me.

I'd love to play Wonder Woman.

You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.

Stevie Wonder was a big influence in my life.

It is no wonder lesbians love women.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

Wonder Woman is such an amazing character.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Live, love, wonder, and be nice!

To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

I wonder who is going to finish second.

Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.