Quotes About Astonishment

People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something.

I was stunned with outrage.

What?" Kinkajou asked. "What? What? WHAT?

No, way. There is a tree? In a forest?

THIRTY?" Tsunami shouted. "I have THIRTY BROTHERS?" "Well, thirty-two," he said. His gaze caught Moon watching, and he wrinkled his snout in an amused way.

Holy smoking vipers,

You were attacked by an albatross?" Clearsight said skeptically. "With … tentacles?

We are our own greatest surprise.

So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

I felt astonishment this system's folk put up with such a monarch. The attractions of kingship are well documented, but sentimental indulgence can become an illness if it isn't looked to.

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion, Polgara said. I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language. Thank you, he said, I think.

MR. YEE: Urgle. Urgle urgle. Splarg. Kaa. [Falls from chair.] MR. TINE JR.: Holy mackerel.

Sviare l'attenzione, il segreto è tutto lì, tesoro. Non hai bisogno di chissà quali marchingegni, botole, casse con il doppio fondo, tavoli strani. Ho sempre sostenuto che un uomo disposto a imparare come si svia l'attenzione della gente può sfilare un oggetto dalla tasca, metterlo in un cappello e infine estrarlo. Resteranno tutti a bocca aperta, chiedendosi da dove è spuntata quella roba.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.

stopped, gasping at the air. The nail turned

The commonplace miracle: that so many common miracles take place.

And I possessed the gift of vanishing before astonished eyes, which is the richest of all. I am too close, too close for him to dream of me. I slip my arm from underneath his sleeping head— it's numb, swarming with imaginary pins. A host of fallen angels perches on each tip, waiting to be counted.

There's a snake in my butt!

for sheer astonishment nothing beats an uncanny bit of prestidigitation perpetuated by a neurasthenic homunculus with black-framed glasses, imposing crown baldness, and a romantic presence to rival the late Arnold Stang.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.