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Startle Quotes & Sayings

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When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone - 'I didn't mean to startle her. — Patricia Briggs

behind ourself, concealed - should startle most," wrote Emily Dickinson, — Stephen Cope

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards ... I believe our best days are yet to come. — George H. W. Bush

Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. — Rumi

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. — William Carlos Williams

I don't startle easily. — Penny Marshall

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. — John Keats

He's like a deer; I don't want to make any sudden movements and startle his thoughts away. — Sandy Hall

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. — Walter Pater

To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. — John Milton

He's dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. — Suzanne Collins

I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. — Suzanne Collins

I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging. — Mick Jagger

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era. — Nobuo Uematsu

Eloquence which does not startle I don't consider eloquence. CICERO, LETTER TO BRUTUS, 48 B.C. — Robert Harris

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. — Antoni Tapies

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday. — Daphne Du Maurier

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal. — Cassandra Clare

Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the living, — Neil Gaiman

It's not safe for me to be out, but they rattled my cage. — Mindy McGinnis

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection. — John Baldessari

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day. — Margaret D. Nadauld

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. — Tim Ferriss