Quotes About Astonishment

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.

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.

I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me.

Walbourne's fluid, tasteful, beautiful solos drop the jaw, stop the heart, and smack the gob, all at the same time.

Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd: I am always about in the Quad.     And that's why the tree     Will continue to be, Since observed by Yours faithfully, God.

Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. "Would you look at that?" he said, and passed out.

Seduced by the warm confident woman. Intrigued by the widowed single mother who seemed to effortlessly juggle all the balls in the air. And to his utter astonishment, he fell in love with the messy, frustrated, unhappy woman with toys scattered at her feet.

I did the same thing." "You think I didn't know?" Rob chuckled, slapped Eli on the shoulder. Then stopped again when they reached the old section. "Christ almighty. I know you told me how extensive, but

Well, holy sh Ã¢â'¬Â¦ shoeshine

I fainted....and you ate my ass? You fed me my own ass?

Give me wonder, baby. Flash. Give me amazement. Flash.

Se pueden repetir los mismos milagros una y otra vez mientras nadie recuerde la última vez

Wait- there was a book?

What he sees often, he does not wonder at, even if he does not know why it is. If something happens which he has not seen before, he thinks it a prodigy.

Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird.

Comprobó con asombro que era un enorme alivio estar sola.

Oh, it was, and, remains, a source of great and terrible wonder.