At such close range, even she could hit a vampire full force in the shoulder, surprising him considerably. He paused in his… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It was surprising how many kids don't have lunches. If we all get behind this cause, it'll help a lot of the… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways… — Walter Kirn 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
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
You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This… — Michael Almereyda Copy Share Image
Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies,… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach… — Chris Ramsey Copy Share Image
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
“It’s is not a surprising news that manna should fall from heaven in these days. But this manna will fall for those… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Becoming the person you thought you'd never be is a surprising experience. Even if it's in a bad way or good. — ALYSSA Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine. — Diana Kennedy Copy Share Image
I don't think it's surprising we will have to look for them. I'm confident that when the Iraq Survey Group has done… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged,… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“ON PLAYING back the 911 recording, it’d seem that Mrs. Stegman was more concerned that the man outside her apartment door was… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited. — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. — Deidre Hall Copy Share Image
If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
![“It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is…” quote by Benjamin Hoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78e/benjamin-hoff-4297_fighting_it-s-not-surprising-therefore-that-the-b_1089898.jpg)
![“A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6bb/charles-darwin-507_biographies_a-surprising-number-of-novels-have-been_2530641.jpg)
