The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the…

“He thought I’d be his best reporter, said I had a surprising mind. In my two years on the job I’d consistently fallen short…

— Gillian Flynn

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try…

— Matthew Bourne

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

— Naseeruddin Shah

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having…

— Alec Baldwin

“You must constantly persist to imprint your brand image on the mind of your audience”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

— Kurtwood Smith

You have to keep surprising your audience.

— Shane Black

“Sometimes people rise above their past, sometimes not. And sometimes the people you least expect it from—like Raylan and my father— have a way…

— Kayla Cunningham

Actually,” I said, hesitant to bring it up, “I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human.” “Or witch?”…

— Kim Harrison

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

— William Deresiewicz

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap