One must astonish the bourgeois.
One must astonish the bourgeois.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Notaccommodate us, make us comfortable.
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
I want real flowers, perennials which not only grow and change and die, but also rise again and astonish me. A garden shouldn't just bloom and look pretty it should develop like the rest of life. Otherwise it, and we, live only to be spaded under.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories