Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Jane Austen

I am all astonishment.

Eugene Ionesco

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Theodore Roethke

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Thaddeus Stevens

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

Cassandra Clare

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Enid Bagnold

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

Deb Caletti

It's shocking the things we call love.

Arturs Irbe

When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.

Dede Miller

We'll see. There are still a lot of other issues. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if she did.

Charlton Heston

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Meredith Patton

We're going to come out and surprise a lot of people. We're a young team, but we never give up.

Carnie Wilson

I can be a lady - surprise!

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Elie Wiesel

I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

Charlie Chaplin

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Charles Sturt

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

Charles Spurgeon

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

Alan Rickman

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

Dianne Wiest

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

Dave Barry

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

David Tepper

GM will do what's best for GM, and Delphi should do what's good for them.

George Robertson

We stand shoulder to shoulder in a new kind of struggle and a struggle that we have to win,