Alfred de Musset Quotes

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

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

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

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.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

There's a powerful appeal in the 'I didn't know that' effect. I love it when people say, 'Gosh, I didn't know that.'

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

I can't imagine why you're so interested." He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, "Oh, that was good." The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

You ever notice how when you get a new tattoo, it's like a magnet? People are drawn to it, everybody wants to touch it?

I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.