#astonishing

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#because #catch #committed #component #did

I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#astonishing #reflection #beauty

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. ↗

— Brian Cox

#art #astonishing #because #color #director

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#average #average woman #file #opened #rank

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#astonishing #black #few #go #green

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#because #fans #get #i #nice

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#brains #definitely #effort #many #people

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

#astonishing #become #external #five #his