Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enid Bagnold

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

Cassandra Clare

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Charles Darwin

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Jane Austen

I am all astonishment.

Stephen Dunn

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

Theodore Roethke

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

Thaddeus Stevens

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

Eugene Ionesco

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Sharon Salzberg

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

Wendell Berry

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Otis Redding

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

James M. Barrie

I do loathe explanations.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Robert Fulghum

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

Sammy Hagar

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.