#astonishing

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

— Sidney Poitier

#father #him #i #man #poor

Are you all right?" "Oh my god! I phased!" "Are you all right?" "Are you?" "It was strange." "I can't believe I phased just then! That's never...it was totally your fault." "I like to think so, yes." "Tee hee. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#colossus #joss-whedon #shadowcat #men

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

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#behind #finally #get #here #his

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. ↗

— Philip Roth

#even #know #knowing #more #passes

That all you got...Bub? ↗

— Joss Whedon

#shadowcat #men

Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me. ↗

— Tom Baker

#because #come #face #get #i

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