Julie Andrews Quotes

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

People never cease to amaze me.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

Wonders will never cease.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.