Startling Quotes

*(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."

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.

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.

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.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn`t be surprising.

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.

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.

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

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.