What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
In our conversations, he [Michael Jackson] revealed a surprising understanding of art history. We were going through the finer points of the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is… — Anna Camp Copy Share Image
The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way. — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
“The realization is surprising, but the one that follows stuns me even more. I'm not in love with him anymore. Instead, looking… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my… — Mari Mancusi Copy Share Image
You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny. — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so. — Elizabeth Ferrars Copy Share Image