Life Quote by Alexander Smith

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today,…

— Alexander Smith

I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or…

— Norman Lock

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

— William Deresiewicz

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated…

— Michael Almereyda

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,…

— John Taylor Gatto

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann