#astonishing

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

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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

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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ↗

— Alice Munro

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The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

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I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#hamlet #intelligence