At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood…

“Beeches stood aghast in pools of shed leaves. Silver poplars looked like moonbeams.”

— Ali Shaw

Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when…

— Michael Jackson

I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says.…

— Daniel Henninger

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct…

— George Will

Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it…

— Rowan Atkinson

...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..

— William Faulkner

The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people…

— Walter Mosley

Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?”…

— Gaelen Foley

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted…

— Morgan Neville

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly,…

— Anonymous

I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best…

— Amy Chua

By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By…

— Edgar Allan Poe