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Those numbers are staggering, and I can`t believe the U.S. government can see those kind of figures. Why make criminals out of honest people?

- Robert Walker

(His diary entry after viewing Star Wars (1977) for the first time): It`s a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and some of the dialogue is excruciating and much of it is lost in noise, but it remains a vivid experience. The only really disappointing performance was Anthony Daniels as the robot, fidgety and over-elaborately spoken. Not that any of the cast can stand up to the mechanical things around them.

- Alec Guinness

I`d never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I`ve been learning more about it as I`ve been doing interviews. I didn`t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!

- Billy Connolly

It was really staggering to stand there on that slab on what was their City Hall and you look around 360 degrees and you see nothing there that could be salvaged.

- Brad Arnold

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

- Carroll O'Connor

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president.

- Michael Reagan

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

- Mercedes McCambridge

Regarding why his Wonder Woman script wasn`t accepted: It was in an outline, and not in a draft, and they didn`t like it. So I never got to write a draft where I got to work out exactly what I wanted to do. In terms of the meaning, the feeling, the look, the emotion, the character, the relationship with Steve Trevor, all of that stuff, I never wavered for a second... The lack of enthusiasm was overwhelming. It was almost staggering, and that was kind of from the beginning. I just don`t think my take on Wonder Woman was ever to their liking.

- Joss Whedon

There is just staggering demand, and we`re running the plant 24 hours a day, seven days a week, ... We`re doing our very best, but I don`t think we will be able to make as much as people want this year.

- Steve Walker

He`s been governor for five years, and a staggering 54 percent of members of his party are looking to vote someone else.

- Mark Sanders

It would be physically impossible if we had to do this by the trigger date of May 2008. It would be impossible to do it all in one year, so we?re staggering it.

- Arnold Schecter

Demand for this product is staggering.

- Barbara Ryckman