Astonish Quotes

51 Astonish quotes by 43 unique authors

Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice… — Anne Bernays
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes… — Tawfiq al-Hakim
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will… — Ernie J Zelinski
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! — Camille Pissarro
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch… — Jamake Highwater
A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its Ã©clat it falls. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create… — Marcus Garvey
Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my… — Lawrence Millman
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'… — Milan Kundera
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if… — Orison Swett Marden
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps… — Alan Moore
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of… — Sue Monk Kidd
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To… — Georges Perec
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and… — Eugene Ionesco
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. — Cormac McCarthy
At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability… — Sue Monk Kidd
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel… — Marilynne Robinson
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going… — C.S. Lewis

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