Quotes About Astonishment

Holy fecking crikey, it comes!

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2 200 songs. I was amazed.

I was advised to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

Most of the contemporary beings acquire in their presence a very strange need to evoke the expression in others of the being-impulse 'astonishment' regarding themselves, or even simply to notice it on the faces of those around.

Hoke stared. Hoke said, "Gulp.

Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.

Oh, it's you, Curran's voice said quietly. I thought it was an elephant.

Really, Luther, if I knew you were that hungry, I would've picked up some takeout." At the sound of my voice, he turned. "You!" "Me." "What is this?" He looked at Julie. "Mini-you?

I'd do the Mount St. Helen's trick, where the smoke comes out of the top. I wouldn't even have to look at people. I'd hear that 'Ahhhh!'

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Errant's horse-humped earhole, what the fuck is this?

It's fucking raining dragons.   Quick

Work is about a search 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. Studs Terkel

Work is about a search 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.

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. Perhaps immortality, too, is part of the quest. To be remembered was the wish, spoken and unspoken, of the heroes and heroines of this book.

If we are lucky, we get to live very long and healthy lives. If we are even luckier, we will be astonished by the sight of blue jays all the way through.

Vivimos en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

If you have no idea what I'm about to do, just watch and wait..then you'll see time spin to a stop right before your eyes..and you'll forget that world you once knew

So long awaited that its coming was a shock.

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?

It's a grogler, you brainless cod! I yelled at him. No, it's a hyd-oh shit, it's a grogler, Orion said, and just stood there for a dazed, gaping moment.

On a hunch she asked whose signature Claude Aubert had forged. The group was astounded to learn it was that of Charles Leblanc! The "frightened financier"!

That mysterious girl again!" Nancy gasped