In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
As West Indians we have always been disrespected. As soon as we fight back they make it look like we are the… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
It's a ridiculously expensive time of year and if you buy something that you've guessed at and it's not right, what a… — Phillip Schofield Copy Share Image
The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this… — Chuichi Nagumo Copy Share Image
Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes… — P. M. H. Atwater Copy Share Image
That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
I think the thing about cooking from tins for me that I really enjoyed was... the convenience of it, the slight entertainment… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
Twitter has been a pleasant surprise for me. I never imagined that anyone would be interested in what I have to say!… — Carrie Henn Copy Share Image
“I'm surprised you're not freaking." "I don't freak'" he said bluntly. "You kinda did when I burst into flames earlier." "You caught… — Rick Gualtieri Copy Share Image
One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed.… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of… — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real… — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
It's that stubborn fixation on details that has invariably prevented me from getting excited about celebrating each passing year. Which is why… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Don’t do that.” “Don’t do what?” “Sneak around.” “Do you mean walk around? Because that’s what I actually did. I usually crouch… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace,… — Laurence Shames Copy Share Image
