Jessye Norman Quotes

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

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

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

I find this life so interesting.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.