Flabbergasted Quotes

#1. Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

Steven Pinker

#2. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.

Laura Kreitzer

#3. I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I've been so absorbed in the last few series that I'd sort of forgotten that it wasn't real.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

#4. I can't blame you for trying to categorize me. It's a human instinct. It's why scientists are, to this day, completely flabbergasted by the duck-billed platypus: it's furry like a mammal, but lays eggs like a bird. It defies conventional classification.
I AM THE PLATYPUS (Coo coo ka-choo)

Jeff Garvin

#5. What are you doing here? I thought I was to meet with Dr. Kendall."
"I am Dr. Kendall. I changed my last name when I went to college."
She was flabbergasted. "Why would you do such a thing?"
"You changed *your* name."
"I was married!

Elizabeth Camden

#6. There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am, of course, delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted.

Terry Pratchett

#7. In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is the side opposite the right angle". A sentence that later flabbergasted the inhabitants of el Idilio, who took it to be a wird tongue twister or a mysterious incantation".

Luis Sepulveda

#8. When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?

Steve Sabol

#9. I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

Billy Connolly

#10. Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?

J.K. Rowling

#11. The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

Anna Quindlen

#12. We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

Lewis Thomas

#13. He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.

Cora Carmack

#14. Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. Malfoy staggered. Harry, Ron, Crabbe, and Goyle stood flabbergasted as Hermione raised her hand again.

J.K. Rowling

#15. I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

Rhys Ifans

#16. They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Daniel Petrie

#17. I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.

Tommy Bond

#18. The awe-inspiring beauty of nature is nothing more than being flabbergasted by our ignorance of it. Good art produces the same effect; and the worst thing an artist can do is to follow the herd, because domesticated art is about as dynamic as a domesticated animal.

Anthony Marais

#19. I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

Rhys Darby

#20. Win was flabbergasted when he heard me say to the dog: We don't put our paws on the table while folks are eating, Manch.

Katherine Paterson

#21. I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

Catherine McCormack

#22. I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate there. I would have loved to share the fact that I was the new Doctor, but I couldn't. I was going mad. My dad was rather flabbergasted. When I told him, he laughed. He was excited, elated and very proud.

Matt Smith

#23. Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

Poppet

#24. Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.

Robert Kennedy

#25. The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

Lesley Howarth

#26. A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

Frank Sinatra

#27. Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Jerry Leiber

#28. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot

#29. At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

Myrtle Reed

#30. Creative attention means really giving our attention to what does not exist.

Simone Weil

#31. Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Terence Tao

#32. She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cleared his throat. "Dear Marcus. Merry Christmas. I'm breaking up with you. Mia.

Megan McCafferty

#33. Dreams and death were old friends of his. He knew how to navigate their dark borderland.

Rick Riordan