“It's surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.” — Brittany Burgunder 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
Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of… — James Tanton 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
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the… — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw… — Rene Redzepi 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
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of… — George Bernard Shaw 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
I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will… — Christian Bale 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
I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life...after diagnosis — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends.… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
