I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to… — Simon van der Meer Copy Share Image
Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer… — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing. — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background. — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves. — Daniel Wildenstein Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! — Orville Wright Copy Share Image
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing... — George McGovern Copy Share Image
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation? — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
