Quotes About Astonishment

Licata's free hand clapped over his gaping mouth

was as surprised to hear me say it as I was. "Where have

I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.

I was very surprised when I watched 'Star Wars,' and I thought, 'Oh, that's me. I've been blown up.' Then, I came back again. I really didn't know what was happening!

We can be very sure that as we discover new aspects of the expanding and evolving universe, we will be startled and amazed once again.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.

If we can make something decentralised, out of control, and of great simplicity, we must be prepared to be astonished at whatever might grow out of that new medium."34

The whole world's at sixes and sevens, and why the house hasn't fallen down about our ears long ago is a miracle to me.

Soothing stories have been plentiful in all ages. . . . To survive, a story must arouse wonder, wonder in both the senses in which we now employ the word: astonishment at the extent of man's capability of good and evil, and speculation as to the sources of that capability.

He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of his consciousness, he asks himself if the face that appears there, disfigured by the water, is his own. The singularity of his being, which is pure sensation in children, becomes a problem and a question

Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

Christ in a crinoline!

Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit.

amazing," said Rachel. She reached

In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity: surely it was not possible that it was so good.

A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

Fuck me, Bat gasped, It's like an angel shat ice cream coffee rainbows in my mouth.

The young man was even more astonished by the cleverness and audacity of his cat.

The news came like a thunderclap.

What the audience heard was like nothing they had ever encountered.

The whole world is a series of miracles ... but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.