Startled When Quotes
- It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen. — Yahoo Serious
- I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them. — Harold Brodkey
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around… — Alice Walker
- I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail… — Ray Bradbury
- A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes