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Quotes About Startling

I'm doing fine. I eat dogs! Heh heh heh!' I
~ Iain Banks
Finding Louisa in her drawing-room was like discovering a kitten in the cupboard--not necessarily unwelcome, but still startling.
~ Steven Harper
Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch. What happened? Matt asked, gasping. I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.
~ Nancy Farmer
Aviso al doctor? -preguntó Sempere hijo. -Ya estoy mejor, gracias. Mucho mejor. -Pues tiene usted una manera de mejorar que pone los pelos de punta. Está usted gris.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.
~ Charlaine Harris
Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben's reflexes had saved him. "Please stop doing that!" Ben barked. "Please keep doing that!" Hi warbled.
~ Kathy Reichs
If Holland recovers consciousness, tell him we'll get him to a healer just as soon as we can," I told them. "You may not want to let him see his arm lying there, though. That's an awfully startling thing to see when you just come to your senses." - Ysolde
~ Katie MacAlister
I have to say that you're the last person I'd have expected would have a seventeen-year-old daughter. You're so..." Alice stopped, suddenly looking guilty. "Dashing?" Gunner supplied. "Debonair?" "A bit of a dawg, actually.
~ Katie MacAlister
What I did mind was being hit by a cab, then landing on the lap of a naked man. With an erection, Anya. He had an erection.
~ Gena Showalter
If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life can be sudden.
~ Iris Murdoch
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~ Francis Bacon
It wasn't every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Dean Robillard's larger-than-life world. "Son of a…" Dean
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
It wasn't everyday a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of the road,...
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
i eat babies
~ Susan Meyers
look. The fireball
~ Suzanne Collins
It is but for a moment, comparatively, that anything looks strange or startling, — a truth that has the bitter and the sweet in it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nothing fierce or startling. Just that eternal, private conversation that takes place between women and their tasks.
~ Toni Morrison
I think it's because it's startling every time - every single time - that such beauty and such loss coincide in every life, in every soul, in every memory.
~ Kerry Egan
All of the sudden
~ Kevin O'Brien
Jesus!" Luke exclaimed. "Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.
~ Cassandra Clare
Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.
~ George R.R. Martin
So far 2020 is like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by an airplane.
~ Author Unknown