Quotes About Astonishment

Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment. ''Do you prefer reading to cards?'' said he; ''that is rather singular.'' ''I prefer a great many things to cards, Mr. Hurst,'' said Elisabeth; ''Not the least of which is the sensation of a newly sharpened blade as it punctures the round belly of a man.'' Mr. Hurst was silent for the remainder of the evening.

Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel. Let him be stunned. Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Gregor werd nog roder. En toen werd hij groen. Ik knipperde een paar keer met mijn ogen, maar hij was nog steeds groen, met rode ogen. Net de Hulk: hij werd steeds groener en griezeliger en er sprongen twee hoorntjes uit de zijkant van zijn hoofd. Ik had wel eens gehoord van monsterachtige bazen, ik had er zelf een gehad, maar dit was echt belachelijk.

We long to feel good about our work. In his brilliant way of writing, Studs Terkel explained over 40 years ago what people wanted from their work efforts: "It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. . . . To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book."2

Before I even saw him in shorts, I knew his legs would probably be like tree trunks. When I finally saw them, I was like, 'Whoa!

At my house I have a full-size time machine that I've built over a couple of years... I love looking at people's faces when they walk into my office. They're literally astounded.

It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.

Awfully?" she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. "I am full of awe," he explained.

Zwanger!' zei Arianna. 'Hoe kan hij nou zwanger zijn?

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. (from The Messenger)

Such richness flowing through the branches of summer and into the body, carried inward on the five rivers! Disorder and astonishment rattle your thoughts and your heart cries for rest but don't succumb, there's nothing so sensible as sensual inundation. Joy is a taste before it's anything else, and the body can lounge for hours devouring the important moments. Listen, the only way to tempt happiness into your mind is by taking it into the body first, like small wild plums.

Let me     keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be     astonished.

So she looks in her rearview mirror," one is saying, "and there's a bear in the back seat, eating popcorn.

When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.

Prepare to hear of occurrences which are usually deemed marvellous.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth that still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

Some guys surprise you like that.

As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a strange expression that resembled a look of weariness, except that it seemed to reflect much more than the endurance of this one moment.

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.

Well, Pat, you aren't going to believe this…

meteoroid had hit with such force it melted the ground around it, making it look like foundry slag. The heat turned quartz intrusions in the bedrock into chunks of colored glass. The Dry Valleys We went on like this for hours, as though there was no being done with the astonishment landscapes might offer us, or to the potential for any seemingly inconsequential thing out there to startle and inform, or