Startles Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you. — Theophile Gautier
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary… — Ursula Hegi
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was… — Dani Shapiro
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything… — Donald Harington
The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday… — Peggy Noonan
Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of… — James Lovelock
And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls. — Cy Twombly
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet. — Jones Very
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and… — C.S. Lewis
I scarcely remember counting upon happinessâ€”I look not for it if it be not in the present hourâ€”nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting… — John Keats
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me. — Carolyn Keene
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself starring… — Marie Lu
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force… — Lorrie Moore
I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear.… — Abbi Glines
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. — Thomas Ernest Hulme

Who Wrote These Startles Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Startles Quotes as follows: