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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

Work, Put, Effort

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

Divorce, Heard, Committed

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
Charles Baudelaire

Makes, Crowd, Priest

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

Wisdom, Mankind, Governed

When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.
Susan Orlean

Fun, Game, Around

The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
John Podhoretz

Real, Story, Ground

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
John Malkovich

Fashion, Watch, Clothes

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, Old, Film

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

Education, Ignorance, Nothing

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier

Father, Him, Poor

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
Philip Roth

Knowing, Passes

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
Lewis Thomas

Life, Single, High

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

Black, Rather, Few

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
James Broughton

Joy, Whole, Gift

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
Larry Wall

Hope, Philosophy, Quite

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller

Wisdom, Human, Keep

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
Ben Kingsley

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone

Looking, Round, Delight

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Stephen Greenblatt

Words, Him, Before

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
Mike Wallace

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright

Secrets, Discover, Preserved

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, Rather, Sea

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?
Placido Domingo

Career, Working, Improving

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.
Bruce Beresford

Big, Everyone, Seen

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden

Writing, Last, Getting

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
Oscar Niemeyer

Light, Drawing, Search

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
Jim Ramstad

Health, Home, Care

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky

Mean, Country, Rich

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

Father, Him, Trying

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

Politics, Art, Sometimes

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