Quotes About Startling

You seem like a decent investigator, Muse. But every once in a while, your naïveté is absolutely startling." Her

Gruffly, he cleared his throat. 'Don't take this as a blanket approval of your tactics, Sarah, but if I'm ever unfortunate enough to get in trouble with the law, I want you to represent me.' Before I could respond to this startling and totally out-of-the-blue compliment, he opened the door and was nudging me inside. I caught a quick glance of his face before he walked off toward the dining room. He was actually blushing!

Nothing moves fast in Texas except the windmills And the hawk that rises up with a clatter of wings. (Nothing more startling there than sudden motion, Everything is so still.)

Before he could bring his lips together, his teeth fell, no, actually his teeth jumped, out of his mouth.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink. A girl is laughing with her friends. Suddenly, a crater splits apart the earth. Through it bursts a man in an ink black chariot forged in the deepest pits of hell, drawn by stallions with hooves of steel and eyes of flame.

an experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them." —Leo Rosten

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

Vine flowers quicken Like wakened chihuahuas

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

Die Menschen in der Urzeit haben oft Dinge getan, die nicht einfach nur überraschend, sondern geradezu unfasslich sind.

What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.

He was so easygoing, she forgot he could be deadly. And startling as his anger was, it gave her another key to understanding him.

How are you?" Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano—" "Second cousin." "He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound?

You have four guns." "Someone must have stuck them on when I wasn't looking.

Your grasp of the language is startling," Wax said, "considering how you so frequently brutalize it." "Ain't nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

Blow spiders!

In Tracer Shells, 2002, forty-six cats with bright-white fluron-tipped tails, leap over upturned chairs and tables (depicting social chaos) in response to rapid bursts of recorded machine-gun fire. In the darkened space the effect is startling, the message disturbing, and the method ethically challenging.

There was a click. There was a noise like a partridge. There was a thud. There was silence.

extras with startling accounts of commonplaces never delude you into unnecessary excitements;