You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and… — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time. — Nolan Ryan Copy Share Image
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“The more powerful the person you meet, the more surprising it is to find out they’re just making it up, just like… — Sam Conniff Allende Copy Share Image
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising,… — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't… — Lorde Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I kept a lot of my ideas to myself because I honestly thought no one cared. So it was surprising to find… — Marsai Martin Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and… — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something… — Josh Henderson Copy Share Image
I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Every two weeks on 'Doctor Who,' the set is completely different, the world is different and there are new actors coming in.… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a good gift-giver, other than the fact that I like surprising people. I usually give what people ask for but… — Trea Turner Copy Share Image
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
