The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music. — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
When you surprise yourself and you can't remember what the take felt like, then something transformative has happened. — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
People expect the math to be simplified, but I want to surprise them right from the start. When the brain gets lost,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
For people who've never seen me before, some of my material is quite a surprise. I look like your sister or neighbour,… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually… — Frank Welker Copy Share Image
It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine,… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I look in the mirror expecting to be 34 and see someone who is 58. What's that all about? I haven't even… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I like having surprises in the morning for each other on the bedside table, so when you wake up you have something… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. — Jessica Savitch Copy Share Image
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.' — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image