Quotes About Astonishment

It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes. If you've ever done that.

His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

Christ on a bike, Tony …

The gift I bear is of absolute wonderment.

I am son of man and woman, so they tell me. That astounds me . . . I thought myself more!

If you had been there, you would have beshit yourself, believe me.

Neither of them even had time to scream.

Thunder and lightning!" cried the huge man when he came within speaking distance of the little minister — "thunder and lightning! if it isn't Mr Maclaren himself! Not a day older — man, you're a wonder!

The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape.

Tell me what was said," she prompted. "I informed Mr. Swift quite sternly that I will not allow anyone to make Daisy unhappy. And I demanded that he give me his word not to marry her." "Oh, thank God," Lillian said with a sigh of relief. "He refused." "He what?" Her mouth fell open in astonishment. "But no one refuses you." "Apparently Mr. Swift wasn't told about that," he said.

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

The surprise is that you continue to be surprised.

shocked second, glanced

I didn't expect the water to be this high

Seriously," he murmured, still taking her in. "Wow." One more "wow" and she was going to start her own drinking game.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what: not the usual undiscovered bird in the cold snowy willows, garishly green and yellow What could it be, this astonishment, but falling into a liquid mirror to finally understand that the purpose of earth is earth? It's plain as night. She's willing to sleep with us a little while.

Oh. My. Godz. Could you?

One does not question a miracle.

To Paula in Late Spring" Let me imagine that we will come again when we want to and it will be spring we will be no older than we ever were the worn griefs will have eased like the early cloud through which the morning slowly comes to itself and the ancient defenses against the dead will be done with and left to the dead at last the light will be as it is now in the garden that we have made here these years together of our long evenings and astonishment

You are the strangest child," she told me. "I had no idea," she said. "I didn't begin to know.

Meanwhile the other monsters were busy. The winged horse was rearing and stomping; the rabbits were gnawing into legs; the double-headed eagle was plucking eyeballs neatly from their sockets and swallowing them whole, the satyr was— Dor stared for a moment in amazement, then forced his gaze away. He had never imagined killing men that way.

I think I just became psychic, he said. Holy crap.