#struck

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#come #find #government #how #i

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#lifetime #lightning #man #manages #out

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can. ↗

— Paul Kane

#also #authors #dance #feedback #feel

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#call #chicago #city #desire #i

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#equal #felt #i #idea #many

I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters. ↗

— Marc Pamittan

#characters #life #movie #reality #stars

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#base #before #game #i #idea

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief. ↗

— Julian McMahon

#anything #away #big #dignitaries #father