Quotes About Astonished

I can't believe

One sees so many kinds of men, one finds about one the relics of so many philosophies, one is astonished to meet, still surviving, so many illusions.

Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So he said how astonished he was that Sidney Poitier, with whom he'd just taped an interview, had been so articulate.

My most memorable meal was with my parents at Joel Robuchon's Restaurant Jamin in Paris. It was Christmas 1982, and the flavors - from cauliflower and caviar to crab and tomato - astounded me. It was the first time I remember thinking that I would like to really learn how to cook.

I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.

Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel. Let him be stunned. Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.

Am I the only one getting shocked to smithereens here?

In my heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished again at the endless possibilities of seeing and using the camera as a recording tool.

Unfortunately, in the longer term, this willful blindness leaves life murky and foggy; leaves it void, unseen, without form, confused—and leaves you bewildered and astonished.

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

Brambleclaw looked baffled.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

I didn't know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, Wow

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over.

My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack!

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Cyrus and Madge looked at each other, and when he could speak, Cyrus croaked, "They're fu…" The sound of his own voice astounded him. "They're ugly. Pagan." "They're the Fuglies", Reb sputtered. Marc added, "Cyrus is right, they're fucking ugly.

He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries.

He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.

Banality depends on memory, as do irony and abstraction and boredom, three other defenses the educated mind deploys against experience so that it can get through the day without being continually, exhaustingly astonished.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and delighted; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man.