Quotes About Amazement

We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.

Barking spiders!

I wrote the book almost unconsciously, like a somnambulist, and was amazed when I realized what I had done.

Seriously--you've got TWENTY thingamabobs AND a snarfblat!

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.

Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.

It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

Relearn astonishment.

they crossed a drawbridge over a quiet inlet she caught sight of herself in the window and thought, Cora, close your mouth, you look like a kid on Christmas morning.

I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that?

Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the queue is the second-most baffling. The first is the fan.

I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.

Gene Hoglan is one of my friends, and when I watch him play, I'm blown away; I can't believe what his body can do.

What on earth, boys!

I can't believe I get to marry you. The words slipped from her in a soft tone of amazement. He reached out and cradled her cheek in his palm. I was just thinking the exact same thing.

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.

Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.

For even the most wretched and simple-minded man could be a surprise, even a fool could have a soul whose torments were a constant source of amazement. Why are we so slow to see this, and why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another?