Michael Tilson Thomas Quotes

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

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.

Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.

Surprise is important. I think that's the essence of entertainment, really.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

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.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

It takes a lot to get me really excited.

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

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

Holy green guacamole! (Selena)

I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.