The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.
Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
Astonish me in the morning!
Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y. M. C. A.
The. . . promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
