Quotes of: Biggest-surprise Keyword

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

Kenneth Fisher

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Karl Kraus

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

Martin Gore

My children just want to get at the world; it is so pleasantly surprising to witness that.

Michael Leunig

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

Miranda Lambert

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

Rory Stewart

With 'Mumbai Calling,' I was surprised it was ITV that went for it because it didn't traditionally seem like the kind of programme they would make.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

When you fill others lives with love and happiness, your life will be full with pleasant surprises.

Debasish Mridha

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Wally Lamb

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.

Matthew Bourne

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

Trip Hawkins

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

Hannah Storm

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress env...

Garrett Hardin

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

Holly Near

When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal.

Sylvester Stallone

What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.

Lev Grossman

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

Rachel Cusk