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Astonish me in the morning! -- Tyrone Guthrie
Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers) -- Alexey Brodovitch
As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. -- Caitlin Moran
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. -- Dani Shapiro
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises. -- Maria Semple
With an apple I will astonish Paris. -- Paul Cezanne
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. -- Timothy Noah
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. -- David Blaine
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. -- Terry Southern
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. -- Mary Ritter Beard
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. -- Orison Swett Marden
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. -- Milan Kundera
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. -- Abraham Lincoln
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. -- Garet Garrett
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. -- Alan Moore
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. -- Jean de la Bruyere
It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished. -- Aubrey Menen
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. -- Lucian Freud
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world. -- James Buchanan
First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes. -- Denis Diderot
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it. -- Diana Wynne Jones
I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them. -- Indira Gandhi
I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts. -- Heidi Julavits
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace. -- Cormac McCarthy
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! -- Camille Pissarro
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. -- Maya Angelou
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else -- Miriam
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. -- Eugene Ionesco
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information. -- Anthony Bourdain
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A. -- H. L. Mencken
Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life. -- Hafsat Abiola
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable. -- Jamake Highwater
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us. -- Watchman Nee
Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world. -- Marcus Garvey
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle. -- Tawfiq al-Hakim
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger. -- Augustus John
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. -- Clive James

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