#astonishing

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#astonishing #black #few #go #green

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#astonishing #governed #how #little #mankind

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

#astonishingly #childhood #culture #get #html

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

#astonishing #drawing #forms #led #light

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#hamlet #intelligence

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

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 really like beer. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humor #wolverine #humor

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