Astounded Quotes

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen

Funny, Humor, Science

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I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

David Bowie

Mother, Sex, Thinking

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In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

Michael Behe

Eye, Details, World

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Men, Talking

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Im constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, Well, this is bloody weird, you can get through everything.

Dawn French

Long, Different, Amazing Woman

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I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

David Attenborough

Animal

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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.

Guglielmo Marconi

Success, Stars, Philosophy

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It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!

Carla Bruni

Crazy, Kids, Having Kids

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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.

David Attenborough

Atmosphere, Growth, Balance

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...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused every time people turn on the faucet? ...I am astounded by how much untruth has been officially promulgated (pro fluoridation).

John Flaherty

Dark, People, Individuality

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I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

Doris Lessing

People, Perspective, Looks

"A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Solomon

Country, Justice, Oppression

"Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook" by Brian C. Johnson, p. 204, 2008.

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I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

Michelle Forbes

Age, Fans, Television

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After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.

John Calvin

Hands, Years, People

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Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman - unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes.

Woody Allen

Humorous, Moon, Swans

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In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.

Keith Johnstone

Kings, Book, School

Source: actorsandperformers.com

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The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

Megan Chance

Brave, Resistance, Forgotten

Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

War, Land, Cities

Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.234, Penguin UK

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I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

Garry Winogrand

Kids, Funny Things, Two

Source: www.zinzin.com

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My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.

Cheryl Strayed

School, Sunset, Butterfly

Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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When you watch Monsters you understand that the effects he did on his laptop were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, I was astounded.More than a few people said to me, "That's kind of a crazy thing to go from that level of film and then hand over Godzilla".

Thomas Tull

Crazy, Hands, People

Source: collider.com

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I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their front door, because they are scared of failure. I have never been scared of failure, and I have never failed.

John Layfield

Dream, Doors, People

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I have made mention of something I've found incredible a lot of times. I'm gonna remind you of it again. A TIME magazine cover back in the mid-1990s. The cover story on that issue of TIME magazine had the following headline Shock: Men and Women are Actually Born Different." When I saw that the first time, I was astounded. I cite it often, because I need to ask you a question: What must you think, what must you believe if you come across research that tells you men and women are born different?

Rush Limbaugh

Believe, Men, Thinking

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

Doris Lessing

Black And White, Men, Differences

"A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Anatoly Karpov

Depth, Chess, Well Known

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