Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“You're astonishing, Fire," he'd said. "You're a constant source of wonder to me. I'm never more happy than when I've made you… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer… — Andy Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“...how little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that. — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones].… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison -… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
“You are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an… — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
![“We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of…” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/750/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_astonishing_we-have-not-made-cricket-and-football-so_1109457.jpg)
![“He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge…” quote by John Derbyshire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1bf/john-derbyshire-20276_astonishing_he-mencken-was-an-autodidact-with-all-th_1844312.jpg)
![“[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.” quote by Sam Abell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/sam-abell-7768_astonishing_in-the-late-80-s-that-s-the-first-time-i_650129.jpg)
