Astonishment Quote by Roberto Matta Download Open image “I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.” — Roberto Matta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonishment Funny Inspirational Love My own
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world. — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man looks at her, all he can think about is – well, her mouth, and – ” “Emma?” Torie’s own mouth gaped in astonishment. Patrick crossed his legs. “Maybe we’re not talking about the same person.… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share
