#astonish

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. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#because #finds #growing #growing old #me

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ↗

— Mark Twain

#astonish #gratify #people #rest #right

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#am #astonished #consider #could #film

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ↗

— Mark Twain

#do the right thing #gratify #people #rest #right

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#because #being #believe #crowd #immense

With an apple I will astonish Paris. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#astonish #i #paris #will

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. ↗

— Brian Cox

#art #astonishing #because #color #director

This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately important now that she was almost certain, in her innermost heart, that her trip was a failure. Her attitude was not an astonishing one, since like many others she conceived of her life as separate from herself; the road was laid out always a little ahead of her by scared hands, and she walked down it without a question. This road, which was her life, would go on existing after her death, even as her death existed while she still lived. ↗

— Jane Bowles

#attitude

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#astonishing #feel #job #joy #know

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century