When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned as president is that your life is just not going to unfold the way you want… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos,… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety.… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should… — David Katz Copy Share Image
That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Yash planned a surprise for me when I returned home from shoot recently in the evening. He took me to a temple… — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
You should've thought of that last night... You know I keep... I keep putting myself out there and you keep blowing it… — Haley James Scott Copy Share Image
Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However,… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In terms of love and romance, it just seems less and less like that's ever going to happen again, or be a… — John Maus Copy Share Image
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
My dear Frodo!’ exclaimed Gandalf. ‘Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was something of a surprise to my parents. My mum, Margaret, was 42 when she had me and had been told… — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
I got a call from Shoaib Mansoor, and he asked if I'd be interested in doing the music of 'Bol.' I said,… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a… — Lyndsy Fonseca Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act,… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
I wasn't expecting to be traded, so it definitely was a surprise to me. But things happen in this league so I… — Michael Carter-Williams Copy Share Image
I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
