Quotes About Astonishment

It's kind of fun raising some eyebrows when all of a sudden you jump up and you get a tip-dunk or you dunk on Jabari Parker and everyone's like, 'Where did that come from?'

No one would dream of expecting a single individual to be happy—once someone is married, however, everyone is very astonished when he is not happy!

Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

These essays were written at various times over a thirty-year period, to express special discoveries, to serve special needs. But they all echo the same truths of explosive self-revelation and continous astonishment at what your deep well contains if you just haul off and shout down it.

Tom grabbed his arm and pointed gasping, at the dime-store window. They stood there, unable to move because of the things from another world displayed so neatly, so innocently, so frighteningly, there. 'Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!' 'Oh, my gosh!' 'Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!' 'Don't look. Maybe it's just a mirage.

Llénate los ojos de asombro, vive como si fueses a morir en los próximos diez segundos. Observa el universo. Es más fantástico que cualquier sueño construido o pagado en una fábrica.

But they all echo the same truths of explosive self-revelation and continuous astonishment at what your deep well contains if you just haul off and shout down it.

Por Júpiter, eran flechas! ¡Y nos estaban disparando!

Good gracious!

Oh, Heavens' ejaculated the engineer in a feeble voice.

I'm getting to the point where I'm never surprised when you pop up. - Alistair Oh

Jenny gaped at the rather comic spectacle, unable to believe her own eyes until Friar Gregory was so close she could actually see the stricken expression on his face. Rounding on her husband, sputtering in her furious indignation, she burst out, You—you madman! You've stolen a priest this time! You've actually done it! You've stolen a priest right out of a holy priory!

Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.

I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.

She stands there, staring down at the floor, the soda she had just grabbed from the shelf now dangling from her hand. "Omigod

Never forget, the unimaginable can happen.

I'm astonished by my success.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats of violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. They have not thought about it (incredible as this may appear to anyone who reads the papers or listens to the news) and they just don't know what to do. When they look right into the face of depravity or violence they are astonished and confounded.

Omigosh—I'm a squash!

Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

Es uno de esos momentos en los que el cerebro necesita unos instantes para asimilar los sucesos que se desarrollan ante tus ojos; la impresión bloquea temporalmente el camino.

The padlock popped open and I almost FAINTED. 11

La idea de un asesinato, fuera cual fuera, me habría dejado estupefacto. Pero aquel domingo por la tarde, mientras presenciaba uno, me pareció la cosa más fácil del mundo.