All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're… — Steve Burns Copy Share Image
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people.… — Emily Hampshire Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you...There are more stars out there… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“There is a distinct difference between "suspense" and "surprise," and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Surprise is an element that sparks our insides to dance beyond our control. Â It's a kick start in the right direction… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available.… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear.… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won.… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
“…any cat he spoke to would stay quite still with an expression of faint surprise on its face as if it had… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
“At least we have the element of surprise." "FQ$k surprise, sir. I'd rather have artillery!" - Sergeant Major John Brown (Power Games,… — Richard Peters Copy Share Image
The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint;… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason,… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
