Amazement Quotes - Page 7

• Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Life, Giving Up

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• Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

  Rands

  Annoyed, Watches, Awe

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• When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rimpoché

  Creativity, Encounters, Ordinary

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• I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.

  David Oshinsky

  Winter, Boys, America

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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Secret, Skins

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• What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Book, Writing, Offering

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Running, Believe

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• I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

  Richard Hamming

  Simple, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

  Sidney Jourard

  Self, People, World

  SIDNEY M. JOURARD (1968). “DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF”

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• Con setenta o dieciséis años, hay en el corazón de todo ser un amor por lo maravilloso; el dulce asombro ante las estrellas y las cosas y pensamientos estelares; el desafío impertérrito de los acontecimientos, el infalible apetito infantil por lo que viene después, y la alegría en el juego de la vida.

  Samuel Ullman

  Dulce, Estrellas, Corazón

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood", de Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

  Marcial

  Eating, Fats, Grows

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

  Bill Viola

  Creative, Essentials, Video

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• I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

  Terry Pratchett

  Couple, Past, Government

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• Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Feelings, Dazzle, Christ

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• He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Victory

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). "Gran destino: sesenta años de los acontecimientos memorables de la vida del hombre del siglo contados con sus propias e incomparables palabras"

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• Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Existence, Ifs

  "Poet Jane Hirshfield On How To Read Poetry And Restore ‘Amazement’". Interview with Claire Fallon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.

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• With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world.

  William Tecumseh Vernon

  Freedom, Angel, Race

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• Las generaciones futuras se preguntarán con perplejidad que el mundo desarrollado de principios del siglo XXI entró en pánico histérico por un aumento de la temperatura media global de unas pocas décimas de grado, y, sobre la base de grandes exageraciones de proyecciones informáticas altamente inciertas combinadas en cadenas inverosímiles de inferencia, procedió a contemplar un retroceso de la era industrial.

  Richard Lindzen

  Edad, Grados, Generaciones

  "La lenta y segura muerte de la teoría del calentamiento global", por Alan Caruba, www.cnsnews.com. 12 de septiembre de 2011.

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Confused, Grandma

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• The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspiración, Creatividad, Pensamiento

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• A Alexia no dejaba de sorprenderle que lo único que había hecho en toda su vida que complaciera a su madre fuera casarse con un hombre lobo.

  Gail Carriger

  Done, Mama, Werewolf

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• The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Girl, Running, Mean

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• When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

  Vin Diesel

  Saving Private Ryan, Gamer, Diesel

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• Were you hugging Clary?" He looked at Sebastian in amazement. Sebastian shrugged. "She's my sister. I'm pleased to see her." "You don't hug people," Jace said. "I ran out of time to bake a casserole.

  Cassandra Clare

  People, Hug, My Sister

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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