Astoundingly Quotes

#1. Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

Joshua Foer

#2. The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

John Podhoretz

#3. Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

Danielle LaPorte

#4. These days everybody used the clacks, even little old ladies who used it to send him clacks messages complaining about all these newfangled ideas, totally missing the irony.

Terry Pratchett

#5. I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

Li-Young Lee

#6. The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

Douglas Adams

#7. A teleporting cat! Is she yours?" Dr. Daniel McCleod. "Suki

Ellen Dawn Benefield

#8. Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

George Carlin

#9. Step one for getting out of a hole: Stop digging. - KC Golden

Naomi Klein

#10. The sacred soul stand tall!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.

Elizabeth Debicki

#12. Really feeling your body move and the life inside of yourself is critical. Western culture is astoundingly disembodied and uniquely so.

Krista Tippett

#13. Here, astoundingly, crucifixion on a cross is a model around which Paul's audiences are to construct the whole of their life.

Bruce W. Longenecker

#14. Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

Alice Waters

#15. I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#16. A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the Earth show through, and the sky is a pale white, and it's all astoundingly beautiful, and it feels about as remote as any place can possibly be.

Neil Gaiman

#17. And despite the eyeliner, and the lipstick that defines her lips, she has a face now that a passerby's gaze will engage and then bounce from, as it would a street sign or a mailbox number. ...this is what aging is...

Khaled Hosseini

#18. I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

Mark Romanek

#19. France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

Gustave Courbet

#20. Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whore red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly
...
Oh my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers

Sylvia Plath

#21. Difficult times are sharpeners for the mind

Ela Crain

#22. Cardio is the devil.

Stephen Moyer

#23. We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

Wayne Rogers

#24. Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.

Cynthia Ozick