Startlingly Quotes

#1. The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Alexandra Fuller

#2. The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Steven Pinker

#3. I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.

Sy Montgomery

#4. 'Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.

Christopher Buckley

#5. Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

Ken Auletta

#6. Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

Elizabeth Hand

#7. Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them and he pushed inside. It was startlingly sweet and achingly familiar, like finding harbor.

Josh Lanyon

#8. Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#9. True conversions consist in the choice of a new audience, that is, of a new world. All that was once familiar is now seen in startlingly new ways.

James P. Carse

#10. We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

William Randolph Hearst

#11. He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

Douglas Adams

#12. He was a startlingly handsome young man, and that, too, distracted him for girls were attracted to him like priests to gold.

Bernard Cornwell

#13. Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Nigel Farage

#14. All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Quentin Crisp

#15. But even now, a full century after he wrote his first school poem, scratched out in startlingly plain words on onion skin paper with a number two pencil, his heart and soul remain as fresh and brave as ever. Hemingway lives.

Clancy Sigal

#16. Christianity came in here as before. It came in startlingly with a sword, and clove one thing from another. It divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all. It

G.K. Chesterton

#17. When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged.

Arthur Golden

#18. She looked like a somewhat frightened and helpless woman, and yet he knew she was a deadly assassin. The same as he was. She was like one of those startlingly beautiful creatures in the wild - colorful and attractive, but deadly when touched.

Lynn Raye Harris

#19. It happens in an instant, when life becomes startlingly new and frightening and profound, and you turn to the person next to you and see that they feel it too.

Vu Tran

#20. When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

M.H. Abrams

#21. The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence!" Human leapt upward - startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. "Look how the fence throws me back down to the ground!

Orson Scott Card

#22. He glared down at the tiny woman who looked startlingly, hauntingly similar to the little sister he'd tried to protect so many years

Elizabeth Lennox

#23. It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. Often? That's a relative concept when you're in here." He licked his lips. They were chapped, startlingly red against the snow white of his Methuselah beard.

Joseph Finder

#25. Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

Bill Bryson

#27. Oppenheimer's theorizing was so startlingly original - so far in advance of the corroborating observations and so far off the beaten track of astrophysical research - that his colleagues' ignorance cost him the recognition he deserved.

Algis Valiunas

#28. Your heart is startlingly beautiful, Sophie.

Fisher Amelie

#29. A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.

Rupert Murdoch

#30. He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbour.

F Scott Fitzgerald