To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything…

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

— Emily Dickinson

First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was…

— Judith Martin

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

— Walt Mossberg

Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew…

— Elaine Pagels

“And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody…

— Andrew Pyper

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is…

— Maria Conchita Alonso

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself…

— Clement Greenberg

“What was it then? What did it mean? Could things thrust their hands up and grip one; could the blade cut; the fist grasp?…

— Virginia Woolf

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

— Jon Spaihts

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

— James Murphy

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural…

— Eudora Welty

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

— Edwin Land

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no…

— Marquis De Custine

A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

— Edwin Land

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the…

— John Sexton