Startled Quotations

I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me jump, because I just scream.

When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

We have heard no complaints yet. People are a little startled the first time. Your hair blows a bit.

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

She found a kind of possession of this role, ... There were moments during filming that I was just startled at where she was going.

If a girl walks out of her room at midnight or two in the morning, we want to make sure that she won't get startled by some guy even if he lives in the building. He shouldn't be on that floor.

We thought we had command of the game, but their traps startled us and surprised us and got us off of our game. It was a good fight and both teams battled hard. It could have gone either way. Fortunately, it went our way.

He was strapped and apparently unresponsive. All of a sudden, he woke up startled and very combative. He fought one of the paramedics to the point he was able to get through the exit door.

My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

I thought I got him pretty good, so that's what startled me. But the game's too long to blame on one play.

We never thought this day would come. We were quite startled yesterday to hear they had a DNA match.

We were startled by the quantity of data directed at this single machine. Even a lone spam zombie can spew huge volumes of illegal e-mail across the Internet.

We didn't expect to come out that strong. I think we just kind of startled them by shooting so well in the first quarter and we just kept it going.

I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key.

After the first play of the game, our defense dominated. After we were startled a little bit ... our defense decided no more of that and shut them down.

As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittle crackled.

It's my first crystal. When it went in, I about jumped up and down. It startled me.

Then he seemed startled and then kind of gunned it again and came within inches of striking a person, then gunned it a third time and made a clean getaway,

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.

Not win awards, win people. Win audiences. I'm honestly not surprised people like it, but I'm rather startled by the widespread, rapid word-of-mouth. We both believed it would be a film that would eventually find its way.

Their first goal kind of startled us, but we didn't panic. We're an experienced side and knew it was a matter of just getting going.

How are his spirits? Fine. He had blue socks on, and I kidded him about that. He laughed. I asked him which knee they were going to operate on, and it startled him for a second. But he's in great spirits.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us