Startling Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (S) List-
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
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*[on hitting middle age] "I am devastated at what has happened. I have completely disappeared. I am totally invisible. I never really liked my sexy label but on the other hand, to disappear so totally is quite startling."
Diana Rigg
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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
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Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
Mira Nair
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The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
Amitai Sandy
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The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn`t be surprising.
Howard Fineman
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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
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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.
Allan Brophy
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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
