The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Things may not go to plan, but the unexpected throws up experiences and opportunities you had never dreamed of. I didn't get… — John Robins Copy Share Image
Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can… — Denver Moore Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older,… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I wondered If things that might seem frightening could lose their hold over you. I wondered If we find the people we… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known. — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
