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It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds. It's your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They're everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.
Gina Barreca
Best
Value
Pressure
Made
Girl
Astonishing
Best Friend
Glass
Supremely
Diamonds
Friend
Friends
Cut
Your
Who
Everlasting
Resilient
Need
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
Philip Roth
Astonishing
More
Know
Knowing
Passes
Even
Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.
Diana Gabaldon
Character
Eyes
Job
Seen
Become
Before
Transformation
Astonishing
Claire
Fact
Sam
In Fact
Jamie
Act
Actor
Right
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
Education
Ignorance
Science
Nothing
Astonishing
Facts
Accumulate
Form
Amount
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
Advice
Young
Extraordinary
Neglect
Our
Astonishing
Our Lives
Out
Would
Would-Be
Point
Never
Been
Laboratory
Offer
Trying
May
Influence
Happening
Worker
Appearance
Lives
Chance
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
Alexander McCall Smith
Great
Astonishing
Sight
Rather
River
Delta
Towards
Than
Sands
Sea
Inland
Flow
Flows
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
Beeban Kidron
Freedom
People
Political
Internet
Free
Free Speech
Sides
Astonishing
Say
Find
Come
Model
Thing
Speech
I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.
Ben Schott
You
Old
Father
Big
Other
Back
Everyone
Astonishing
Evolution
City
London
Fond
Small
Knew
Look
How
Very
Fan
Used
Map
Each
Belong
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
Genius
Nothing
Astonishing
Ways
More
Faculties
Greater
Doing
Materials
Refined
Than
Done
Intensity
Common
Ordinary
Things
What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.
Binyavanga Wainaina
Gay
Technology
People
Law
Challenge
Community
Gay Community
Astonishing
Negotiating
Able
More
Gives
Part
Environment
Like
Identity
Lot
Leeway
WhatsApp
Going
Spaces
Really
Keeping
Receptive
Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.
Brian Kernighan
Corporate
Telecom
Astonishing
Markets
Meltdown
Though
Some
Somewhat
Had
Fell
Years
Years Ago
Times
Decades
Labs
Owner
Place
Hard
Many
Hard Times
Shrinking
Bell
Cope
I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.
Cecily Strong
Love
Me
People
Astonishing
Embarrassed
Like
Always
Who
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Charles Baudelaire
Believe
Astonishing
Immense
Crowd
Priest
He
Because
Makes
Being
Things
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
Clint Smith
Me
Game
World
Unlucky
Win
Old
Victory
Focus
Other
Astonishing
Run
Athletic
Only
Push
Over
Years
Historic
Mexico
Cup
Germans
Effort
Against
Soccer
Aside
Interests
Team
Even
Each
World Cup
Resilient
Portugal
Thirteen
Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
Dan Kaminsky
Innovation
People
Consequences
Incredibly
Software
Astonishing
Results
Tends
Accept
Because
Loops
Tolerable
Fast
I can only appreciate the kind of work that goes into being a top drag queen. Ru Paul looks just astonishing as a woman. And he's got this fantastic turn of phrase. I find him hilarious.
David Harewood
Work
Woman
Queen
Hilarious
Top
Astonishing
Kind
Find
Phrase
Only
He
Looks
Him
Got
Goes
Just
Being
Paul
Fantastic
Turn
Drag
Appreciate
It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.
David Ignatius
Work
Hard Work
Time
You
World
Treat
Spend
Astonishing
Drawn
Harvard
See
Attack
Students
Over
Days
Chief
Campus
Any
Graduates
Asia
Roots
Hard
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Whose
Fashionable
Assets
Palin
Number
Set
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
Dinah Maria Mulock
Day
Sets
Astonishing
Minutes
About
Catch
Odd
Lot
Really
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.
Edward St Aubyn
Hero
Slow
Reading
Own
Think
Astonishing
Mine
Impact
My Own
Main
Had
Written
Most
Read
Reader
Proust
Go
La
Very
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Person
Being
Company
Novel
Ever
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
Decision
Everyone
Astonishing
Would
Could
Implication
Accept
Judgments
Which
Appeal
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
People
Impossible
Old
Father
Slow
Grass
Faster
Astonishing
Though
Run
Some
Could
Hill
Him
How
Climb
Were
Up
Very
Trying
Stairs
Them
Much
Old People
Compete
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
Harold Prince
Happy
Care
Astonished
Astonishing
Does
Audiences
Quite
Who
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
Howard Rheingold
Trust
People
Words
Strangers
Astonishing
Kind
Computer
Write
Because
Screens
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
Work
Me
Old
Astonishing
Would
Could
Never
Conceived
Like
Felt
Still
Get
Pro
Unexpected
Film
Ever
To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible? No one knows.
James Gleick
Path
Will
Down
Wikipedia
Birth
Astonishing
Possible
No-One
Mass
Knows
Continue
Years
Fervor
Sustain
Need
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
Me
Made
Become
Own
Think
Imagination
Mediums
Astonishing
Spirits
About
Mental
Voices
Like
Powers
Said
How
Were
His
Five
Hugo
Victor
Twice
External
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