Astonishingly Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
— Keith Crown
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although I do not…
— John Keats
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that…
— Eric Hiscock
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But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent…
— Muriel Gray
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Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics is fun, and we aren't…
— Ronald Graham
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
— Andy Hobsbawm
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The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
— John Szarkowski
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they…
— Francine Prose
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Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped.
— Emma Watson
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task…
— Arne Jacobsen
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The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.
— Dorothy Kilgallen
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We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that…
— William Duncan Silkworth
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The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.
— Rex Brandt
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
— Annie Dillard
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one…
— Paul Claudel
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.
— Jojo Moyes
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.
— Neil Gaiman
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Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks…
— Paul Davies
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