“Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new. — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people. — Joseph Kosinski 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
Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise. — Ludacris Copy Share Image
It did surprise me to be made captain. The obvious issue is my English. It's not that great, so communicating with players… — Carlos Tevez Copy Share Image
What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood,… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
