#struck

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#blue #earth #eye #feel #felt

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#dinosaurs #earth #geological #history #i

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage. ↗

— John Boehner

#activist #amendment #constitutional #constitutional amendment #current

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to! ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#been #bit #bryan #chair #chat

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#among #education #face #fellow #governors

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #europe #hear #here #i

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#because #bored #desires #down #enemy

I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.' ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#ago #around #being #did #fact

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#him #poised #rattlesnake #see #strike