Quotes About Astonishment

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

He remembered as never before how exquisite and beautiful she was, and her kisses tasting of crème de menthe and her fragrance of Coty perfume would be new and sweeter than ever after the coca and the rustic perfumes of these valleys. What a feeling of satin, that of her red lips under his cracked by the wind and the sun! The astonishment in her blue eyes when he related his odyssey through these wild mountains!

If a perfect person from the planet Mars landed and discovered that Earthlings got tired and grew old, that person would feel pity and astonishment. Without ever understanding what was good about being human, in feeling tired, in giving out daily; only the initiated would comprehend this subtlety of defectiveness and this refinement of life.

That's it," Darryl cried, seemingly flabbergasted.

She was constantly surprising him. Siri went over and held up Mr. A's hand. All the fingertips were purple: triplicate syndrome.

by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!

Well, what do you know? Fakespeare!

It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again.

Holy moly. - Jasper

So did you murder Balekin?' Nihuar asks me, clearly able to put off her curiosity no longer. 'Yes,' I say. 'After he poisoned the High King.' 'Poisoned?' she echoes in astonishment, looking at Cardan. He shrugs, lounging in a chair, looking bored as ever. 'You can hardly expect me to mention every little thing.

Randalin rushes toward the door, nearly running into Heather in his haste. He blinks at her in astonishment, clearly not prepared for the presence of a second mortal. Then he departs, avoiding even a glance in my direction. 'Big horns,' Heather mouths, looking after him. 'Little dude.' Cardan leans against the doorframe, looking very satisfied with himself.

She's clearly shocked by my behavior. She should be. My behavior is shocking.

Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news.

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.

When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out.

Coincidence is always possible. Strange and improbable things happen every day, and we accept them and simply scratch our heads like rubes in the big city, and say, "Gollee, ain't that somethin'.

Fine," I said, pulling into the very last slot in the parking lot. "See you then." " 'Tis devoutly to be wished," Brian said, and hung up. I sat there in astonishment for a moment; had my brother really just quoted Hamlet? Perhaps

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never thought they'd see in their lifetime. With

We live in a world of banal miracles.

What the hell? For what?' "That

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.