The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, 'You're hip-hop!' You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said?… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored… — Julian Jarrold Copy Share Image
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I know I'm overweight, everyone can see I'm overweight. It's not a surprise to know I'm overweight. Why do people feel that… — Alison Hammond Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel,… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves.… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
“I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet." "Please tell me you plan to dress up… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Personally, I think knees should be kept for the eighth or ninth date, or the wedding day. As a nice surprise you… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Social media provides us the opportunity to think before we 'speak', giving us a better shot at reasoned dialog. So it's not… — Paul Biedermann Copy Share Image
I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot… — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
