#astonish

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#hamlet #intelligence

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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

#around #astonishing #australia #beautiful #beautiful places

I'm astonished by my success. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #success

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#father #him #i #man #poor

I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #shadowcat #men

I'm sorry. But it's like you said, Emma...I don't have any claws. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#cyclops #joss-whedon #men

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#astonished #before #came #clerk #coins

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain...you keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along--that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy--I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then...gone. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #shadowcat #life

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