Quotes About Startling

How can something so . . . huge happen so fast?

Son of a bitch, you're scary, he informed Jackson. Where the hell did you get that look? Practicing in the mirror every day?

THIS IS THE SURPRISE.

It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

I would say that grace is startling," Jean told me as he began retelling the story of how he wound up as pastor of Lagniappe Presbyterian Church, a growing congregation that meets in a glorified metal hangar in Bay St. Louis. "It's just startling. It isn't supposed to work. This wasn't supposed to work.

A nasty surprise in a sandwich

Don't be afraid to shock people or be unexpected.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Has a confrontational ring to it, doesn't it? Like saying, the sky is rubber, or, your foot's a hippopotamus.

You just don't expect to meet dead people.

offensive is frequently but a synonym for unusual...

lo ofensivo no suele ser más que un sinónimo de lo insólito.

Don't you just hate it when you're having a nice relaxing soak in the tub, and a murderer shows up?

She remembered once, years back, she and Deen had snuck away on a Changing night and made a bed in the high grass of the prairie, with their blankets and pillows. When they'd woken up, there had been a mouse, chewing on the pillow between them, and Deen had screamed so loud that Jinny's ears rang.

Intuition often comes with a suddenness that is startling; it reveals the truth for which we are searching, so directly that it seems to come from a higher power.

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.

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations...

and Croz's startling tribute to Bobby Kennedy, "Long Time Gone.

Hell really has frozen over.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.

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.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.