Astonishing Quotes

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exile, because I've so missed England.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.