Quotes About Astonished

_____________________" I'm lost for words.

By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

Alex was delighted and astonished with her mother for behaving as a mother should for once.

The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.

He sat astonished in front of the menu, as if he had never seen one before. There were pages of dead things – cows, shrimps, pigs, oysters, lambs – stretched out like a casualty list, accompanied by a brief description of how they had been treated since they died – skewered, grilled, smoked, and boiled. Christ, if they thought he was going to eat these things they must be mad.

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]

A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.

flabbergasted.

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.

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

I don't want to see you caught like a word in that last line. What does the nightingale do when it runs out of things to say? Only this: I have never been so astonished at the love of one woman which is the way the moon finally closes its eye behind a ridge, the way the wind never stays around long enough to see what it has brought.

You were totally unprepared for her." "That's for damned sure.

The children and their parents were too flabber-gasted to speak. They were staggered. They were dumbfounded. They were bewildered and dazzled. They were completely bowled over by the hugeness of the whole thing. They simply stood and stared.

The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. They were STAGGERED.

They were AWESTRUCK. They were BEWILDERED and DAZZLED.

The children and their parents were too flabbergasted to speak. They were STAGGERED. They were AWESTRUCK. They were BEWILDERED and DAZZLED. They were completely bowled over by the HUGENESS of the whole thing. They simply STOOD AND STARED.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that.

Gautama was astonished at how many ways his mind could plague him. It blamed him for everything—for his blistered feet, for getting lost in the forest, for making a bed from tree boughs that turned out to be full of lice.

Somebody come quick with the smelling salts; I'm about to faint.

Twenty-five? Shawn squawked, horrified. Good Lord, he's a fetus!

Marcia said you had to go and have fun?" Rose looked astonished. "Yep. That's what she said." "Crumbs." "Yes, I know.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.