Startling Beauty Quotes

#1. My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

Susan Hill

#2. Stop poking your nose around where it doesn't belong, someone cuts it off. There's something else going on around you, like a storm.

Kendare Blake

#3. Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.

Margot Livesey

#4. I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

Axl Rose

#5. We are so lucky to live here, he would say, and she couldn't disagree. They were lucky that the earth had conspired to heap up such startling beauty in one place, and they were lucky that it hadn't all fallen apart yet in a a geological catastrophe.

Chris Adrian

#6. We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.

Edward Abbey

#7. Sometimes people hold on to hope as if was their own skin. Without it, they feel would just fall into pieces.

Glenn Frank

#8. I'll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it's time to get married, I'm going to be an amazing wife.

Nicole Polizzi

#9. The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

William Kent Krueger

#10. I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

Alice Oswald

#11. The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.

James Frain

#12. A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly

#13. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

William James

#14. The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her ... so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

Kim Edwards

#15. Was the collaboration of some slaves any different than the silence of some Iranians who stood by and did nothing as Savak thugs murdered and tortured opponents of the Shah? How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes?

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#16. Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry ... Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

J. Ruth Gendler

#17. The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez