Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise. — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
When I'm casting a picture, I think who I'd like to see in it if I was sitting in a theater. Who… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians. — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book. — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a… — Horace Copy Share Image
The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
I like surprises. I like mystery. I’m not the kind of person who goes to the writer’s room and goes, I need… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Mystics find themselves delighted in being surprised again and again by the many loving manifestations of God . . . "Surprise" is… — Stephen J. Rossetti Copy Share Image
Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit.… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
It is always better to wait for a good surprise instead of thinking about it. — Mani Sharma Copy Share Image
“But one thing I’ve learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.” — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving. — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
