Quotes of: Astonishment Keyword

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.

Diane Sawyer

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Ralph Inge

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

Alexander Fleming

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.

Frederik Pohl

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

Clive Thompson

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

David Blaine

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Thomas A. Edison

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want th...

The Apple That Astonished Paris

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Meditations

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.

Timothy Noah

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Theodore Sturgeon

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

Charles Baxter

I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

Jose Andres Puerta

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Jack Gilbert

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Mike Nichols

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

Anger in the Sky

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

Stephen Greenblatt

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Salman Rushdie