Quotes About Astonishment

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

It is all still new to me. I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

My father will be filled with frank astonishment that I should be proving myself capable of earning a living in any capacity whatsoever.

A thunderbolt at her feet could hardly have surprised or annoyed her more. If

CHAPTER XXVII 'WONDERFUL BIRD!

Just when you least expect it, --- enkantos will always have a way of surprising you.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.

There was awe, and there was also incredulity—sheer disbelief that the dead Moon, of all worlds, could have sprung this fantastic surprise.

My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman.

Pero nadie pensaba que llegaría muy lejos, porque ni siquiera creo que fuera capaz de integrar e elevado a x. - ¿Es posible tal ignorancia? - preguntó alguien con asombro. - Puede que esté exagerando. Digamos x por e elevado a x.

And then there came a sound which Moon-Watcher could not possibly have identified, for it had never been heard before in the history of the world. It was the clank of metal upon stone.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The

Hogyan háborgathat bárki is egy két kilométer hosszú, fekete hasábot? És vajon milyen formában közölné a rosszallását?

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Wonderful! I ejaculated.

Now, Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback," said he. "I am." "I ought to make you sign a paper to that effect." "Why?" "Because in five minutes you will say that it is all so absurdly simple.

Well Holmes, I murmured, have you found anything out? He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. I say, Watson, he whispered, would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip? Not in the least, I answered in astonishment. Ah, that's lucky, he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonishment. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face.

Sterndale sprang to his feet. "I believe that you are the devil himself!" he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.

When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.