Definition of Startling

Startling Quotations

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

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

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen

I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.
Diana Wynne Jones

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz

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

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

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

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
Brian De Palma