Startled Quotes

117 quotes by 98 authors

Jem--Jem is all the better part of myself. I would not expect you to understand. I owe him this." "Then what am I?" Cecily asked.… — Cassandra Clare
The door slammed open. Vivenna jumped, putting a hand to her chest. Vasher walked in. 'Start reaching for that sword when you're startled,' he said.… — Brandon Sanderson
Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of… — Jim Butcher
We're almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn't caught her around the… — Jessica Day George
Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling… — Cassandra Clare
Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the… — Richelle Mead
I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me… — Leigh Lezark
We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world. — P.J. O'Rourke
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and… — Luke Harding
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring… — John Updike
The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status… — James Heckman
Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out… — Lewis Thomas
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in… — Abraham Maslow
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion.… — Hugh Leonard
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects,… — Jonathan Miller

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