I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
“I'm surprised you're not freaking." "I don't freak'" he said bluntly. "You kinda did when I burst into flames earlier." "You caught… — Rick Gualtieri Copy Share Image
Twitter has been a pleasant surprise for me. I never imagined that anyone would be interested in what I have to say!… — Carrie Henn Copy Share Image
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed.… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I remember being asked for the first time about my race, and it really took me by surprise, just that it was… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
Even before I came out, looking at me, I've probably looked a little gay. I had short hair, and, you know, it… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration,… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I had soaked up all of these ideas about what it meant to be a creative person from media and culture. And… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a… — Gordon Hayward Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and… — Mark Oliver Everett Copy Share Image
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it.… — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing,… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“But the thing I notice most isn’t what’s in them—surprise, disbelief, curiosity, maybe a little pity—it’s what’s not. Judgment. Disdain. Horror. None… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along… — Josie Long Copy Share Image
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
IF YOU (LIKE), (LOVE), OR (MISS) SOMEONE RIGHT NOW: - and can't get them out of your head. - then add this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
