Gracie Allen Quotes

It's hard to make me speechless.

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.

Every single day I'm shocked.

When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

I was struck all on a heap.

I couldn't believe it. It was unbelievable, that's why. My face was like a frozen fish finger. All rigid and pale. (But obviously not with breadcrumbs on it.)

I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.

...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.

ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy.

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

I don't believe what I just saw!

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

A bolt from the blue.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.