Quotes by Astonishment To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said. Alexander Hamilton astonishment cows together HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing. Alice Walker astonishment delight magic I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. Arthur C. Clarke astonishment machines thinking People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration. Barbara Mertz astonishment believe people 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. Cassandra Clare handkerchiefs astonishment silent She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also because nobody used the word "Egad!" anymore. His eyes widened, though. Cassandra Clare astonishment bed eye 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. Charles Baudelaire astonishment unexpected essentials Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. Charles Darwin astonishment graduates attention There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. Diane Ackerman astonishment weekend unique Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. Douglas Adams astonishment next way Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. E. Lockhart astonishment hours should At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson astonishment hope ideas I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living. Enid Bagnold astonishment aging We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us. Erich Maria Remarque astonishment important ideas Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco astonishment gateways explanation The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld astonishment surprise should Rome is an astonishment! Harriet Beecher Stowe astonishment rome Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. Hermann von Helmholtz astonishment curiosity taken Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment. J. K. Rowling astonishment yeah law One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up. James A. Baldwin astonishment one-day blow 123»