Zitat des Tages über Erstaunen / Astonish:
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among Christians themselves, in all the churches. It cuts across every denominational line.
