#astonishing

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ↗

— John Bulwer

#astonishing #feels #how #little #loves

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. ↗

— Alexander Fleming

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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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It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#body #brightest #i #just #know

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

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