I'm astonished by my success.

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

— Danielle Steel

I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's…

— Malcolm Forbes

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of…

— Richard O'Brien

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to…

— Terry Pratchett

“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”

— Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

— Abby Sunderland

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not…

— Max Muller

“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of…

— Kristin Cashore

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

— Edward Abbey

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

— Richard Flanagan

“The orb sat, exhausted and astonished.  In a thousand years and more—it had never been thanked for failure.”

— Debora Geary

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

— Daniel Libeskind

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the…

— Carl Jung

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition…

— Deborah Eisenberg