It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
There is a way of the Spirit unknown to the natural mind. No barrier can keep you from finding His best except… — Frances J Roberts 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
It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately… — Cory Doctorow 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
“Without knowing he was going to do it, Sonny smiled right at the general and said in a loud, firm voice, "It's… — Dahl Edwardson Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized I was getting ten opening notes a day on my mobile phone, more than when I was in New… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising. — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
