What an astonishing thing a book is.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

— Mike Wallace

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival…

— Janice Y. K. Lee

“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.”

— Philip Roth

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,…

— A. A. Gill

It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never…

— Robertson Davies

The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.

— Sam Gyimah

“There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they…

— Blaise Pascal

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

— Philip Roth

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

— Gregory Bateson

“No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice,…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer…

— Pamela Druckerman

The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is…

— Bryan Stevenson