#surprise

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#stops #surprise #wonder

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #buy #consistently #drop #fans

What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; something unexpected in a usual place (our favorite aunt in our favorite poker parlor) or something usual in an unexpected place (our favorite poker in our favorite aunt). I knew that my sampler was absolutely right in Elsie Norris's front room, but absolutely wrong in Mrs. Virtue's sewing class. Mrs. Virtue should either have had the imagination to commend me for my effort in context, or the farsightedness to realize there is a debate going on as to whether something has an absolute as well as a relative value; given that, she should have given me the benefit of the doubt. As it was, she got upset and blamed me for her headache. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage. ↗

— Denholm Elliott

#surprise #courage

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #american #experience #fact #helped

You may pray to God to remove the hills on your way and fill every pothole on your path; but don’t be surprised if God gives you a shovel to do so! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dream #hills #israelmore-ayivor #pothole #pray-god

Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out? ↗

— Molly Harper

#jane-jameson #molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs #pinata #questions

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#spontaneity #surprise #humor

Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#biblical #brief #humour #i #inspirational

It's shocking the things we call love. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #mistakes #surprise #life