Startling Quotes

135 quotes by 126 authors

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on… — Janet Flanner
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite… — John Burroughs
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want… — Nicholson Baker
So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling… — Geena Davis
For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to… — Frank Delaney
Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has… — Will Self
Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge… — Richard Layard, Baron Layard
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out… — David Fontana
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more… — Ann Shulgin
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. — Emily Dickinson
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. — Robert Henri
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that… — Alexander McQueen
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. — Mira Nair
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people… — Patti Smith
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlettâ€”I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice… — Margaret Mitchell
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders,… — Eudora Welty
It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just… — Sarah Dessen

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