Quotes About Astonishment

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Who of those born in future generations will believe this? I myself who saw it can hardly believe that such was possible.

Fu in quell'occasione che mi convinsi che niente potesse fermarla, e che anzi ogni sua disobbedienza avesse sbocchi che per la meraviglia toglievano il fiato.

LEGGE DI HALDANE L'universo non è soltanto più bizzarro di quanto ci immaginiamo: è più bizzarro di quanto ci possiamo immaginare.

"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried."Elementary," said he [Holmes].

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.

What on earth, boys!

The everlasting and exclusive coming-to-be, the impermanence of everything actual, which constantly acts and comes-to-be but never is, as Heraclitus teaches it, is a terrible, paralyzing thought. Its impact on men can most nearly be likened to the sensation during an earthquake when one loses one's familiar confidence in a firmly grounded earth. It takes astonishing strength to transform this reaction into its opposite, into sublimity and the feeling of blessed astonishment. (p.58)

Most things in life come as a surprise.

It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.

Interviewer: The other day, when we first talked, you said that you felt that, when you were writing, you were often following invisible patterns. Stone: I don't see them so much as hear them, and I know that a poem will happen and later I will look at it, and say: Wow, where did that come from? how did I do that? I didn't set out to do that, but the neural connections are so fast, the body, the self is so slow, (laughs) that you're kind of astonished. It's odd.

Holy Lesbos, Batman!

When the slugs begin to talk there's no time to lose.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain...Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

This, said a voice from the depths of the sofa, is too much.

She stared in shock. There was nobody there!

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

It's like bitch-slapping E.T.

Mael wore the astonished expression of an innocent.

At once the room was flooded with a harsh yellow light. And the boy, staring up at the vampire, could not repress a gasp. His fingers danced backwards on the table to grasp the edge. "Dear God!" he

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

I eat gaijin for breakfast… His words trailed off as Jilly came out of the house, in her pseudo-frock, her combat boots, her spiky hair and her young, young face. He just stared at her, motionless, as if someone had clubbed him over the head with a mallet. Jilly froze where she was, staring back at the exotic creature in black leather and bright red hair who'd invaded the garden.