Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky 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
Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. — Vaclav Havel 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
My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying,… — Gary Lightbody 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
Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing'… — Wendy Wright Copy Share Image
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book… — A. S. Byatt 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
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
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
Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering… — Sandra Dodd 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
There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be… — Lorde Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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