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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. — Francis Ford Coppola
I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody… — Junot Diaz
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. — Thomas A. Edison
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. — William Ralph Inge
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. — Ben Kingsley
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. — John Malkovich
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife. — Steven Morrissey
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that… — Alice Munro
Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on… — Bill O'Reilly
When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance… — Susan Orlean
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials… — John Podhoretz
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. — Sidney Poitier
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. — Philip Roth
I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the… — Steven Spielberg
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,… — Lewis Thomas
It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. — Mike Wallace
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth… — Martin Filler
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. — Howard Rheingold
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us… — Bertrand Russell
It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it… — Neil Gaiman
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
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,… — Mark Twain
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann

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