Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“What was surprising, though, was discovering what Starflight got up to when he was bored. “Hey,” — Tui T. Sutherland Copy Share Image
Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an… — Augustus Saint-Gaudens Copy Share Image
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The next thing I knew I was listening to five people shouting. What was that all about, anyway?” (Luke) “Nothing,” chorused Clary,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw… — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of the show has always been trying to be surprising, and that was easy to do when nobody… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of… — James Tanton Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for… — Silvanus P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
With the Israel stories, it was for me the most surprising way the title would fit in. I kept thinking about, for… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and… — Kenneth Prewitt Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
“ 64. Surprising and Distressing Things While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catches in the teeth and the comb breaks.… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are,… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for… — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
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