The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The portion of some is to have their afflictions by drops, now one drop and then another; but the dregs of the… — Mary Rowlandson Copy Share Image
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately,… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
“This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the… — Jane Bowles Copy Share Image
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that… — John Gould Copy Share Image
