I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald never fails to surprise: her language is clever and elegant, her settings are unusual, her characters are unpredictable, and I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big… — Anna Meredith Copy Share Image
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
That has been one of the pleasant surprises of my semester - finding that some of my Liberty friends are still my… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come out right,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
Every time he plays, Leo Messi reminds me more of Maradona, both left-footed and short, Messi is the best player in the… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a… — John Noble Copy Share Image
'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really… — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Phil [Mickelson] has done a great job. He's a great player and he's conducted himself very well through the years. He's been… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it… — Jimmy Knepper Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges… — Brassai Copy Share Image
It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
You know, this might surprise people, but what I really want and what I'm really working toward is a Chanel suit. I'd… — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force,… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
But what if you're wrong? What if there's more? What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for? What if you… — Nichole Nordeman Copy Share Image
It wouldn't surprise me in 10 to 15 years if heading wasn't involved in the game. The research and the momentum it's… — Ryan Mason Copy Share Image
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image