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Quotes About Startling

all of a sudden
~ Kate DiCamillo
It's simply cunting,
~ William Peter Blatty
unsettling, like seeing Stalin on a skateboard.
~ David Nicholls
The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.
~ David Wong
This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
~ Beth Broderick
You were totally unprepared for her." "That's for damned sure.
~ Richelle Mead
We lived like that "Happy Family" you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
What the fuck are you doing in my house? I could've shot your ass." "Is someone in Los Angeles selling military munitions?" Talk about non sequitur. Jon
~ Robert Crais
Right. I can see it now. Merry Christmas, everybody! And by the way, did I tell you I'm a vampire? No need to pass the gravy, just bare your neck-
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that.
~ Deborah Blake
I have never heard anyone tell me that this would happen to them.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box...
~ Rick Riordan
OF ALL THE various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag.
~ Robert Asprin
Of all the various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag. Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin
~ Robert Asprin
concentrate on nothing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and everything. The outlines of the truth were being presented to him, shape by enigmatic shape, each more startling than the last. He was not at all sure he was capable—mentally capable—of absorbing a great deal more.
~ Robert Ludlum
I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?
~ L.M. Montgomery
IT CAN BE STARTLING TO SEE SOMEONE¹S BREATH, LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD. YOU USUALLY DON¹T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR.
~ Jenny Holzer
seems completely unwarranted.
~ Ernest Hemingway
And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody ever really expects it.
~ Andrew Pyper
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
~ Judith Martin
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.
~ Joe Biden
This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
~ Corey Clark
Lord, cat. Announce yourself next time. I don't have no nine lives.
~ Libba Bray
Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.
~ Linda Colley