Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes! — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read! — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do. — Deborah Norville Copy Share Image
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
“I don't want adventure." "I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
With some basic skills, ambition and persistence, then there is little limit to what you can achieve, and by trying you can… — Joe Gold 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
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
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
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
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
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
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me.” He pressed a button in the wall, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise… — Nina Agdal 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
The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed… — Tom Mison Copy Share Image
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise. — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
