Even before I came out, looking at me, I've probably looked a little gay. I had short hair, and, you know, it… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I remember being asked for the first time about my race, and it really took me by surprise, just that it was… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration,… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
That's life in the league for you, though. I mean - that's life for you, period. Things don't always happen in a… — Gordon Hayward Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I had soaked up all of these ideas about what it meant to be a creative person from media and culture. And… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it.… — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and… — Mark Oliver Everett Copy Share Image
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing,… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
“But the thing I notice most isn’t what’s in them—surprise, disbelief, curiosity, maybe a little pity—it’s what’s not. Judgment. Disdain. Horror. None… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along… — Josie Long 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
But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again?" "Jell-O Surprise." Link grinned. "What’s the surprise?" Ridley examined the red gelatin… — Kami Garcia 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
People's life experiences shape their views, their values and, ultimately, their decisions. So it's no surprise that when we study women's leadership,… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
There was no script, but I said, 'I'm in, regardless' and was committed to Legends before I saw a single page.It was… — Wentworth Miller 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
I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm… — Victor Garber 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
