#surprise

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#enjoy #moments #seize #surprise #take

Surprise is key in all art. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#key #surprise

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#get #i #lot #me #recognition

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#back #come #continually #exhaust #films

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— William James

#between #companionship #joyousness #life #need

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#constantly #given #i #might #movies

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#honestly #i #me #pop #script

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#church #countries #fashionable #i #infect

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#craft #granted #hear #just #lot

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#came #entered #enthusiasm #find #flourishing