Quotes of: Surprises Keyword

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.

Kirsten Vangsness

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

Viswanathan Anand

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Connie Willis

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

Paul Newman

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace o...

Bayard Taylor

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

Saint Anything

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

MaddAddam

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

Mostly Rapscallions: Salient Sillies about the Rich and Infamous in History

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...

M Is for Magic

She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

Kill You Twice

You would be surprised what you can do when you have no choice. That's what courage is, Xavion. It's the result of facing what you thought would consume you.

Legion

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

My Family and Other Animals

It was surprising to think that in fact they were signs, that is, the ashes of an incinerated voice. Bunların gerçekte yazı işaretleri, yani yanan bir sesin külleri olduklarını düşünmek inanılmaz bir şeydi.

Silk

Grace and chocolate cake can cover a world of awkwardness.

Surprised by Motherhood: Everything I Never Expected about Being a Mom

I popped the question, and to my surprise she said yes! If I’d have known she’d say yes I’d have asked a different question, like, Will you marry me? 

Sleepwalking is restercise

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

Orphan Train

I want to publish a book on toilet paper—not only about toilet paper, but actually print it on toilet paper. That way nobody will be surprised by how shitty my book is.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Don’t be surprised if I try to stab you with a club sandwich sword. I will defend your right to free speech at any cost—including killing you.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In the energy field, you have the power to create synchronicity at any time. Feel the joy, surprise, and perfect fit of connecting with the very person who is part of igniting your desire.

Time Slipping