I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“If you didn't predict that something would happen, if it took you completely by surprise, then what you believed about the world… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this… — Chuichi Nagumo Copy Share Image
It's a ridiculously expensive time of year and if you buy something that you've guessed at and it's not right, what a… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all." "I believe everything you say," Tessa… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I used to get great press. I get the worst press. I get such dishonest reporting with the media. I've never had… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
"What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it,"… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was… — Augustus Copy Share Image
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
As West Indians we have always been disrespected. As soon as we fight back they make it look like we are the… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes… — P. M. H. Atwater Copy Share Image
Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate… — Maxwell Copy Share Image
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I just like the prospect of playing lots of different types of characters and just the opportunity to challenge yourself, do something… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, not a moment have I been made to feel, 'Alright, a woman - probably the prime minister wanted… — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I was sort of retired, you could say. During that process, I was recording here and there. I put out several songs… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred… — Clint Hill Copy Share Image