Quotes About Astonishment

English should have a word for that feeling you get when you first wake up in a strange room and have no freaking idea where you are. Hotezzlement?

Folding chairs were flying through the air as if propelled by dozens of invisible Bobby Knights.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Good morning," she said. "I am Headmaster Brazenhope." "No way!" Theodore blurted, astonished. "The Headmaster's a chick!" Without a word, the Headmaster waved her hand and a portal opened up in the deck beneath Theodore. He fell soundlessly into the Nether. With another wave, the portal closed shut behind him. "Any other comments?" the Headmaster asked. Everyone vigorously shook their heads.

It's awful. Why did nobody see it coming?

I communed with jackrabbits, lizards, and peculiar desert squirrels and felt astonished by how much life popped and teemed in the desert. The Sonoran birds made songs I'd never heard before.

Holy bananas, said Skye.

They both had sub-machine guns. Yes, actual sub-machine guns. I couldn't believe it.

Malcolm gaped at me as if a giant erect penis had suddenly sprouted from my forehead. "I know, it's a lot to take in," I said.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

The unnecessary and superfluous volume of pure beauty around here is not the be believed.

She glanced again at Caliban as she said, "You and Daffodil were very brave." "And the best part, Mama," Indio said, tugging her hand to get her attention, "the best part is Caliban spoke. Did you hear him? He shouted my name!" "What?" Lily stared at Indio's filthy little face and then back up at Caliban. She absently noted that he had a bleeding scratch on his cheek. That shout right before the accident—had that been him?

Tony sat down with a thud. You're going to marry Schmidt?

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

It is a miracle she said in the sense that there's no explanation

Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

Would you look at that?

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

He said he never even saw you, though," Bex said, as if she'd just remembered. Liz came in and added, "Yeah, Cammie, he was really impressed when he heard you'd been out there. Like, really impressed.

I look for those moments that are 'gee whiz' moments. There's some 'gee whiz' stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.

If I had a pound for every time I heard Ollie Watkins' name I could buy half of London!

The Cube was a wonder - a wonder for itself and a wonder for myself. To me, it was much more strange than to anybody else.

Larry Bird was a talker. He'd tell you something and you'd be like, are you kidding me? You're really telling me that?

Mother of God!" "That was my thought, or the Presbyterian equivalent thereof.