#astonishing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #astonishing

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#being #clear #falsehoods #force #human

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? ↗

— Placido Domingo

#astonishing #career #i #i am #improving

All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #shadowcat #men

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

There was a pause. Then she smiled and the corners of her mouth drooped and an almost imperceptible sway brought her closer to him, looking up into his eyes. A lump rose in Dexter's throat, and he waited breathless for the experiment, facing the unpredictable compound that would form mysteriously from the elements of their lips. Then he saw--she communicated her excitement to him, lavishly, deeply, with kisses that were not a promise but a fulfillment. They aroused in him not hunger demanding renewal but surfeit that would demand more surfeit . . . kisses that were like charity, creating want by holding back nothing at all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#marvelous #communication

I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#colossus #men

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #fans #get #i #nice

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#astonishing #catch #day #during #lot

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. ↗