Astounds Me Quotes

#1. The simplicity of living astounds me.
But it's the terror of death that devours me.

L.B. Simmons

#2. I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

Leonard Lauder

#3. You read me so well without me ever having to say the words. It astounds me. Perhaps we were made for each other. You're making me a believer, my love.

R.K. Lilley

#4. It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.

H R Brock

#5. It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.

Marc Maron

#6. The thought that I might soon hear my "voice" say, "I'm hungry" as many times as I want it to astounds me. Realizing that I might be able to ask, "What's on the TV?" amazes me. These simple words are my own personal Mount Everests, to think I might soon conquer them is almost unimaginable.

Martin Pistorius

#7. That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

Melina Marchetta

#8. About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I'm celibate, which I don't think is any big deal. After two unsuccessful marriages, I find myself keeping my guard up, along with my underpants.

Sue Grafton

#9. To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Deb Caletti

#10. What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

Ernest Bevin

#11. It still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Jane Smiley

#12. I don't know why the world has to be populated by so many unpleasant people. I really don't. It really takes an effort to be rude, too. The amount of energy people expend on being a jerk astounds me sometimes.

Meg Cabot

#13. I still can't believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I've never forgotten it.

Mike Tyson

#14. Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Henry Adams

#16. Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.

Daniel Suarez

#17. When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

Clement Of Alexandria

#18. A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

Mark Nepo

#19. Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Joe Haldeman

#20. I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Daryl Hall

#21. Am I a human? Yes. Then I like The Princess Bride.

Remy Richard

#22. All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.

Jennifer Ott

#23. The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

Rumi

#24. I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing.

Luis Figo

#25. The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#26. No sex is wrong, if there's love in it.

Marilyn Monroe

#27. City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.

Robert Gottlieb

#28. It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

Jules Renard

#29. Why do I even bother talking to you? You are not helping. You are the capital U of Unhelpful.

Marissa Meyer

#30. A kiss must end for another to begin, and it did, and did again.

Laini Taylor

#31. Benno was the kind of bully who did what the bigger bullies told him to do. He didn't make his own judgments. And he wasn't stupid enough to think he could override Caine's orders. Something

Michael Grant

#32. A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.

Craig D. Lounsbrough