For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving…

I have a very loving grandmother who instills guidance and responsibility and faith in myself.

— Jade Cargill

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

— Margaret Mead

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie…

— Kara Swisher

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

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Philip Roth

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

“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

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

— Sam Gyimah

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

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

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

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

— Philip Roth

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

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

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