Astonish Quotes

51 quotes by 43 authors

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
With an apple I will astonish Paris. — Paul Cezanne
What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it… — Dorothy Gilman
That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with… — Gregor Mendel
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of… — Maya Angelou
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy… — Kurt Vonnegut
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has… — Eugene Ionesco
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the… — Clive James
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. — Lucian Freud
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on… — Garet Garrett
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome… — Watchman Nee
Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them,… — Alan Watts
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton
The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling… — C.S. Lewis
People of peace, men and women of desire, such is the splendor of the Temple in which you will one day have the right to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This… — Anthony Bourdain
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise… — Miriam
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes. — Denis Diderot

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