#surprise

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#away #each #enough #far #got

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#anthrax #been #brought #even #fact

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan. ↗

— Hidetoshi Nakata

#europe #everyone #find #how #i

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#defeat #having #intelligence #only #stealth

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gladness #inspirational #surprise #inspirational

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career. ↗

— Paul Newman

#am #amazing #around #booze #career

Surprises can be compelling. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#surprises

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#awfully #chance #close #damn #get

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#curiousity #learning #life #surprise #art