Quotes of: Startling Keyword

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

P. J. O'Rourke

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Walter Pater

Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.

Running from Scandal

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

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

Charles Bass

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

Walt Mossberg

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Leonard Cohen

What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just ...

Austenland

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

The Whispering Statue

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

Clockwork Angel

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

The Art of War

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

Nobuo Uematsu

When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.

Simon Hoggart

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 to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

Nicholson Baker

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

Tina Brown

Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.

Cassandra Clare

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Brian De Palma