#surprise

Art must take reality by surprise. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#must #reality #surprise #take

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#blue #even #everyone #hard #harder

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#love #surprise #dreams

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

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

— Gerald Durrell

#learning #surprise #wonder #education

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise. ↗

— Albert Camus

#surprise #equality

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ↗

— George Will

#being #constantly #either #nice #part

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children. ↗

— Judith Martin

#conduct #education #foreign #foreign language #inducement

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#bring #claim #design #felt #follows

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities. ↗

— Tim Meadows

#been #cast #cities #city #first