#astonish

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#clean #enough #how #leave #new

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. ↗

— Max Lerner

#gates #hope #into #kingdom #leads

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#astonishing #children #conditions #education #fact

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. ↗

— Edwin Meese

#appeal #astonishing #could #decision #everyone

I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#grateful #i #just #listened #respected

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#along #astonishing #blended #breathtaking #chicago

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. ↗

— Terry Southern

#capacity #important #important thing #shock #thing

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#astonishing #continue #epic #hears #his

That all you got...Bub? ↗

— Joss Whedon

#shadowcat #men

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#conceived #could #ever #felt #film