Being Stunned Quotes

#1. I remember being stunned at the New York skyline as I drove over this big freeway, coming across the flats in Seacaucus. All of a sudden it was looming up in front of me and I almost lost control of the car. I thought it was a vision.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

John Steinbeck

#3. Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

Susan Forward

#4. I hate the feeling of falling - I'll never jump from a plane - but I love a good roller coaster. Go figure!

Ricki Lake

#5. He was totally in thrall to the face of the girl in front of him. She stunned him. She paralysed him. Just being in the presence of that face made him pause, his tongue tied with self-consciousness. But she made it easy for him

Tony Parsons

#6. I felt like I was losing some imaginary battle over the forces of fate and love.

Jessica Fox

#7. You mean like you?" The old enmity had come roaring back, and she was no longer one of my bosses. She gave a shout of laughter. "Well, you're right, it's been a rotten time. I've been catering, which is just another way of saying that I've been in hell." "That bad?" Richard took a bite

Ruth Reichl

#8. You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

Jack Gantos

#9. Being genuinely stunned by overwhelming kindness is one of my favorite occurrences in life.

Kim Holden

#10. You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.

Billy Joel

#11. I liked forgetting my cares. Thanks to wine, you didn't forget them, they just stopped scaring you for a while.

Andre Aciman

#12. The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go.

Glen Duncan

#13. I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

Kim Kardashian

#14. I guess I do tend to leave an impression." - Jackaby
"More like a smoldering crater." - Bertram
...
"You've done something with the front garden, haven't you?" - Jackaby
"Yes," said Spade. "We've let it grow back.

William Ritter

#15. I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#16. Mums answer is so unexpected and I am a litte stunned, actually. I wonder whether, had I known the reason for my name as a child, I would have tried to live up to it. Instead of being a failed Arabella, I might have become a Shakespearean plucky Beatrice.

Rosamund Lupton

#17. People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.

Rollo May

#18. There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they've just witnessed a murder.

Cecily Strong

#19. Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.

Lily Tomlin

#20. Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena's recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times - on her knees wearing only a collar and a leash.

S.B. Redd

#21. From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

Richard Wagner

#22. I like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or flippin ugly.

Brian Molko

#23. One time I completely thought I'd turned into a werewolf and was sure I could see hairs sprouting from my face. At those times I'd suddenly go very quiet and not talk to anyone, stunned from the developments, being a werewolf and all.

Beth Orton

#24. It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.

Charles Lindbergh