It Amazes Me That Quotes

#1. I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they've left me.

Bill Bryson

#2. Yet, it amazes me that anyone would give heed to a man who speaks such hatred.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. It amazes me that you can find all that shit even remotely interesting.

John Green

#4. It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

Laura Schlessinger

#5. SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.

Steve Earle

#7. It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

Zoltan Istvan

#8. It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

Irving Layton

#9. It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.

Roger Ebert

#10. We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

Jim Cramer

#11. The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

Kurt Godel

#12. You're unbelievable," he said in a low voice, and it wasn't a compliment. "It amazes me that there was ever a time I thought you needed toughening up."
"Would you prefer someone more ... helpless?"
Even Lucy had to admit that she had pushed him too far.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Ben Marcus

#14. Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him.

Anais Nin

#15. It amazes me that those who behave rudely always expect to be treated politely.

Roger Simon

#16. It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.

Christian Slater

#17. The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Joy Harjo

#18. It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.

Nel Noddings

#19. It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Robert J. Shiller

#20. What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?

Amy Reed

#21. It always amazes me how people are placed in our lives at exactly the right times. That's how God works, that's how he takes care of his children.

Amy Harmon

#22. Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope?

Rene Denfeld

#23. One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.

Dick Costolo

#24. When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

Don Everly

#25. It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

Glenn Close

#26. I glance through the rear window at the house. It amazes me slightly that it looks the same as it did, though it's been gutted of so many valuable things. You wouldn't know, to walk past that house, what it had lost. It looks as proud, and as firm, and as fancy as ever. As whole.

Kekla Magoon

#27. 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

#28. I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing ... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories.

Laurel Nakadate

#29. It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

Horace Walpole

#30. I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids.

Jason Mraz

#31. Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

Frank Zappa

#32. What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Hans Blix

#33. You mean," said Arthur, "you mean you can see into my mind?"
"Yes," said Marvin.
Arthur stared in astonishment.
"And ... ?" he said.
"It amazes me how you can manage to live in anything that small.

Douglas Adams

#34. It amazes me how people can close their minds off to the size of the Universe. With billions of stars, millions of galaxies, and possibly a googol of planets, how can it be that human beings are the only thinking animal in creation?

Coriander Woodruff

#35. It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game

Lou Holtz

#36. I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.

Tom Clancy

#37. I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman ... it amazes me still.

Jenni Rivera

#38. It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

Ann Nocenti

#39. You know," he said, "it amazes me sometimes that we even try. With everything they've done to us - the deaths, the tortures, the agonies - you'd think that we would just give up on things like hope and love. But we don't.

Brandon Sanderson

#40. The last three and a half months have been anything but easy. It still amazes me how far I've come in the last three and a half months. It amazes me even more that I survived the last three and a half months.

Sarah Ann Walker

#41. It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

David Bowie

#42. It amazes me, Saint, that you can own so few redeemable qualities and still be so likable.

Suzanne Enoch

#43. The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

Wentworth Miller

#44. What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.

Rick Smolan

#45. It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I'm so very grateful that You made the world this way

John Denver

#46. It actually amazes me that there are people like that, who talk and talk and talk but have never been punched in the face; who just yell at each other and pray that a bouncer comes. I find that legitimately fascinating.

Paul Lazenby