It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How surprising death was, how irrevocable and complete, how much itself.” — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it. — Brian F. O'Byrne Copy Share Image
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people rise above their past, sometimes not. And sometimes the people you least expect it from—like Raylan and my father— have… — Kayla Cunningham 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
I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
As much as you want to plan your life, it has a way of surprising you with unexpected things that will make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil… — Bill Joy 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
It's not just unexpected for other people. It's very unexpected for myself. But I think that's like a really good place to… — Torrey Peters 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 think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
It's been a struggling school for many, many years, and [that's] not surprising since it's serving some of the most disadvantaged kids… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
If we offer a prize, so to speak, to anyone who manages to bring a country under his physical control - namely,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“ 64. Surprising and Distressing Things While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catches in the teeth and the comb breaks.… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising. — Bryan Clay Copy Share Image
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
It's a little surprising to me that I'm the first Houstonian to be an astronaut. — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Surprising as it may seem, norms matter, even in the hell that is war. — Zeynep Tufekci 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
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