“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
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it… — Charles Baudelaire 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
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“ This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I can’t believe it. You’re finally mine,” he said, astonishment in his voice.“I was always yours.” — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
“A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
First of all, I find everything very astonishing. The astonishment that things can change so much over such a short span of… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the… — Carrie Newcomer Copy Share Image
When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naiveté would be subtracted from my expertise to… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
