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Astonishing! Everything is intelligent! -- Pythagoras
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. -- Frederik Pohl
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business. -- Mark Twain
Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. -- Anne Lamott
Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion? -- Giles Smith
Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. -- Brian Cox
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife. -- Steven Morrissey
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. -- Charles Baudelaire
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing. -- Diane Sawyer
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. -- Oscar Niemeyer
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. -- Howard Rheingold
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. -- William Ralph Inge
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. -- Margaret Fuller
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -- Henry Adams
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. -- Henry Rollins
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! -- Orville Wright
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. -- Thomas A. Edison
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
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. -- Larry Wall
I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia. -- Karolina Kurkova
It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum. -- Martin Rees
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
Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight. -- John P. Kotter
I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. -- Steven Spielberg
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb. -- Andy Hobsbawm
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
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
The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. -- John Podhoretz
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism. -- Martin Filler
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking. -- Irvin Kershner
Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way. -- Peter York
I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate. -- Sarah Kane
astonishing splashes of colour -- James M. Barrie
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. -- Ben Kingsley
Difficult situations breed astonishing results. -- Jeffrey Veen
Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife. -- Steven Morrissey
Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing. -- Stephen Sondheim
What an astonishing thing a book is. -- Carl Sagan
I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing. -- Terry Southern
Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume. -- David Remnick
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. -- Eugene Ionesco
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. -- Grace Paley
It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes. -- Rebecca West
Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. -- Roopleen
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. -- Voltaire
I have discovered an astonishing truth. God is attracted to weaknesses. -- Jim Cymbala
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke. -- Gertrude Stein
For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. -- Kara Swisher
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. -- John Bulwer
It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him. -- Emily Bronte
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. -- Lytton Strachey
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing... -- George McGovern
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. -- Gregory Bateson
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. -- Hafez
A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about. -- Celeste Bradley
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. -- Carl Rogers
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented. -- Clive Thompson
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome. -- August Bournonville
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable. -- Kenneth L. Woodward
I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. -- Brad Willis
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation? -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. -- E. Nesbit
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living. -- Oscar Wilde
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? -- Placido Domingo
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. -- Philip Roth
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. -- Harold Prince
The cornerstone of the Roman legionnaires' astonishing fighting spirit can be attributed to their training. -- Peter Heather
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. -- Sidney Poitier
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. -- Kevin Whately
[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation. -- Charles Baxter
Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue. -- Stephen Elliott
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. -- Jack Gilbert
Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet. -- Howard Bloom
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. -- James Broughton
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. -- Margery Sharp
When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience. -- Richard Holloway
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them. -- Charles Baudelaire
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts. -- Scilla Elworthy
It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better. -- William Dean Howells
An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation -- Steven Levitt
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing. -- Mick Cornett
We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves. -- Daniel Wildenstein
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. -- Sam Harris
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. -- W. Somerset Maugham
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to. -- Agatha Christie
The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing. -- Kelly Clarkson
It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question. -- Brian Herbert
The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars. -- Elissa Schappell
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights. -- Martha Beck
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association -- William James
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics. -- John Maynard Keynes
It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true. -- George R. R. Martin
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways. -- Bertrand Russell
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing. -- Asher Roth
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance. -- Alfred P. Sloan
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak. -- James A. Baldwin
ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price. -- Robin Wayne Bailey
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. -- Matt Mullenweg
Real Madrid fans have to wear sunglasses while watching their team because this star-studded team of diamonds is just astonishing. -- Ray Hudson
it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background. -- Mabel Osgood Wright
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. -- Thomas Mann
It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing. -- Hillary Clinton
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work. -- Tony Kushner
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it -- Dinah Maria Mulock
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror. -- James A. Baldwin
In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel. -- Jonis Agee
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. -- Mark Twain
The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing. -- Francis Chan
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. -- Patrick Bergin
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing. -- Dan Kaminsky
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate. -- Jim Ramstad
I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. -- Jim Cymbala
I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing. -- Keith Gessen

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