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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. Charles Baudelaire | top
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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. Bruce Beresford | top
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I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected. Jacqueline Bisset | top
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. Daniel Boone | top
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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. Georg Brandes | top
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. James Broughton | top
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. John Bulwer | top
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. Thomas A. Edison | top
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. Alexander Fleming | top
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Margaret Fuller | top
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. Neil Gaiman | top
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What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. Stephen Greenblatt | top
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. Benjamin Haydon | top
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As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years. Anthony Holden | top
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge | top
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. Arne Jacobsen | top
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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. Ben Kingsley | top
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia. Karolina Kurkova | top
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The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. Edwin Meese | top
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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. James Merrill | top
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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it. Dinah Maria Mulock | top
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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. Sara Paretsky | top
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten. Frederik Pohl | top
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English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. Mary A. Ward | top
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! Orville Wright | top