Surprise Quotes - Page 4

• Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Stupidity, Persist

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• The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

  David Mamet

  Thinking, Battle, Half

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• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Remembrance

  Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238

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• A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wonderful, Reviews, Sympathetic

  "Joyce Carol Oates, writer - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

  Norm MacDonald

  Laughing, Comedy, Ifs

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Art must take reality by surprise.

  Francoise Sagan

  Art, Reality, Surprising

  1958 Writers at Work.

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• I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

  Brad Paisley

  Rocks, Cds, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

  Jason Mraz

  Track, Luck, Coincidence

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• If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

  Agatha Christie

  Lied, Produce, Effects

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Humble, Answers

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.341, Macmillan

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• Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.176, Pan Macmillan

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• The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.

  Ben Kingsley

  Art, Cutting, Exercise

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• I've learned that some memories surprise you and reveal a sharp edge just when you least expect it.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, I've Learned, Sharp Edges

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• When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Peace, Eye

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• Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

  Betty Friedan

  Opportunity, Bad Ass, Lost Youth

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• I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

  Dick Cavett

  Thinking, Reactions, Get Over

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• I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Believe, Spirit, Holy

  Léon Joseph Suenens (1976). “Ways of the Spirit: The Spirituality of Cardinal Suenens”

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• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Mind

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.616, Macmillan

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• Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

  Charles de Lint

  Interesting, Pieces, Stranger

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• But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Land, Waiting

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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• I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Garth Nix, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.

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• The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.

  Frances E. Willard

  Heart, Two, Support

  Frances E. Willard (2016). “Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.695, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

  Randy Pausch

  Patience, Long, People

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

  Alison Lurie

  Real, Literature

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• Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

  Patricia Cornwell

  Upset, Strangeness

  Patricia Cornwell (2011). “Patricia Cornwell FIVE SCARPETTA NOVELS”, p.2195, Penguin

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