Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because… — Henry B. Eyring 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly… — Jonathan Wood Copy Share Image
Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Life is a cycle, dejza vu, you've either seen it all before or you will see it several times to come. Nothing… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make… — Gertrude Stein 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
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
Caffeine gives me hope. Sometimes, when I brew my wicked strong Irish black tea just perfect, about halfway through the mug I… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
A little ego can be quite entertaining. But [Alessandro Michele is] a very humble, gentle, kind person. And I think that his… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
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
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
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