That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Scott noticed Will staring at it and grinned. "Like what you see?" Woolsey Scott asked. "I do enjoy these surprise midnight declarations.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the… — Eminem Copy Share Image
My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners. — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
“to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot… — jan jansen easy branches Copy Share Image
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can never make an assumption about the conversation you are about to have with somebody. People will always surprise you, which… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
"What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?" a university student asked me several years ago. "The brevity of it,"… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was… — Augustus Copy Share Image
Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no… — Jerry Bridges 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
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can… — John Waters Copy Share Image
There were a lot of times I'd hide in my locker and jump out and surprise people. Whenever friends would come by,… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge.… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected. — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
“Oh... and Bacon Surprise.' REALLY? WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON? 'I don't know. I suppose it comes as something of a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding. — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Sometimes people disappoint you, sometimes people surprise, but you will never get to know them unless you listen for whats in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me. — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
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