#surprise

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#had #i #love #never #something

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants. ↗

— Dave Foley

#angeles #california #fantastic #los #los angeles

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

— Derek Walcott

#caribbean #comes #dissolves #faced #history

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#lot #matter #reacting #surprises #work

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing. ↗

— Kim Weston

#i #once #photographing #rolling #start

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#dramatic #i #people #stuff #surprised

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#am #britain #having #i #like

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #magic #purpose #rain #surprise