#surprise

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#exactly #happens #knows #never #scout

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way. ↗

— Jane Campion

#artist #bad #difficult #dream #enjoy

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#mind #only #own #questions #rarely

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#children #hear #i #people #read

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. ↗

— Rita Dove

#amazing #another #happened #i #least

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. ↗

— James Huneker

#child #scratch #surprise #you

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#after #artists #belief #first #honored

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. ↗

— Bill Joy

#going #i #know #surprised #system

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#i #me #more #often #people

Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach. ↗

— Lydia Ko

#because #clubs #coach #dad #everyone