Astoundingly Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a…
— Douglas Adams
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I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting Gatsby, so I set myself the mission of gleaning as…
— Elizabeth Debicki
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France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
— Gustave Courbet
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...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very…
— Minnie Maddern Fiske
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[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
— John Podhoretz
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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,…
— Franz Kafka
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The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering…
— Bill Bryson
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice…
— Cynthia Ozick
Who Wrote These Astoundingly Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Astoundingly Quotes as follows: