34 Startling Quotes for You to Enjoy

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson

Time Live Else Leaves Anything Anything Else Little Little Time Startling

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Eudora Welty

Me Natural People Grass Books Out Find Had Written Disappointing Like Coming Were Been Wonders Story Story Books Themselves Startling

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made. Geena Davis

Government Needs Change Made Think Other Other Countries Sign Ranks Fact Had Leaders Countries Female Representation In Fact Many Startling

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. John Updike

Worlds Others Consistently Besides Some Seem Collins Poems More Writes Gently Were Than Lovely Billy Describe Serious Startling

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. Maurice Saatchi

Time Great Nature Musicians Creativity Human Nature Trends Everywhere Kind Touch Prevailing Directors Tendencies Writers Know Practiced How Amenable Human Artists Prediction Who Chord Actor Based Humans Startling

Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'Mike Brown.' Just like we say 'Selma,' not 'Jimmie Lee Jackson.' There is something startling about the people in a particular place, a city or a small town, rising up and taking to the streets. Ava DuVernay

Art People World Say City About Brown Something Rising Small Small Town Taking Particular Town Like Ferguson Lee Up Jackson Going Just Place Mike Streets Startling

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away. David Hanson

People Will Become Go Away More Robots Go Effect Get Experiments Commonplace Then Used Less Found Away Startling

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges. Frank Delaney

Life War Together My Life Add Out Riots Troubles Taken Period Sort Dublin Up Ireland Reported Incidents Lived Startling

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Gordon Cooper

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear. J. Philippe Rushton

People Differences All People Would Follows Data Disappear Most Conclusion Were Same Race Average Many Alarming Treated Startling

I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature. Jeremy Scott

Work Nature Simple Calm Farm Respects Some Output Colorful Know Boy Am Arresting Very Clothing Image Startling

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own. Jerome Charyn

Life Solitude My Life Own White Heroic Seventh About Haunted Poems Emily Emily Dickinson Had Crush Since Tales Discovered Persona Grade Landscape Who Ever Her Inner Startling

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns. John Sexton

Remember Those Focusing Out Minute Color Within Came Submerged Shocked Green Cloth Being After Two Startling

I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?' Joseph Fiennes

First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it. Judith Martin

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. Patti Smith

Positive People Sometimes Say Kind Insight People Say Some Something Poignant Like Review Intelligent Really Startling

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts! Richard Branson