Surprising Quotes · Page 15

In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They…

— George Gilder

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take…

— Jack Canfield

But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be…

— Suzanne Collins

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate…

— Mark Strand

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to…

— Edward Witten

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,…

— Chad Harbach

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive…

— Robert Morgan

I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey,…

— Andrew Sullivan

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

— Joseph Conrad

The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

— Mara Liasson

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

— Bryan Clay

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

— John Hodgman

Life takes you in surprising places sometimes.

— Maisie Peters

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

— Chaske Spencer

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention…

— Jonathan Franzen

Abundance flows into my life in surprising and miraculous ways every day.

— Cheryl Richardson

Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

— Edward Jenks

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

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

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense…

— Gloria Steinem

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life.…

— Anselm Kiefer

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of…

— Lynn Freed

Given [Donald] Trump's surprising recent election as president of the United States, his fate and that of the Bomb are about to…

— David Krieger

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and…

— Garrett Hardin