“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.” — Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
“I am endlessly astonished how I can be hit so unexpectedly by something I already know. I’ve” — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty. — Robert Clive Copy Share Image
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up… — Sark Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be… — Douglas V. Steere Copy Share Image
“Instead, he was astonished by what he had: the chance to sit beside this woman in the late afternoon light while she… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am astonished by the various kisses we’re capable of. Each from different heights diminished, which is simply the law. And the… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to… — Francois Laurent d'Arlandes Copy Share Image
“What astonished me greatly was, that though he believed that he was under sentence of death, he made no effort to avail… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I was astonished at how wonderful these books were; and even though I was occasionally discomforted when someone, having asked me what… — Jonathan Cott Copy Share Image
My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The orb sat, exhausted and astonished. In a thousand years and more—it had never been thanked for failure.” — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
