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  • Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

    Light   Poetry   Roles  
    "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.
  • it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.

    Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”
  • Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

  • Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

    Air   Sound   Needs  
    Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

  • The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

    Pain   Hate   Dark  
    "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.
  • One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

  • Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

    Math   Logic   Surprising  
    "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.
  • The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

    Girl   Jealous   School  
  • the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

    Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”
  • One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

  • Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

  • Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.

    "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.
  • One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

  • If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

    William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.267, Harvard University Press
  • The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

    Funny   Wisdom   Survival  
  • The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

    Father   World   Want  
  • When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.

    Love Life   Mean   Views  
    Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.
  • One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.

  • Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

    Two   Mind   Courageous  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.224, Xist Publishing
  • The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

    Mother   Father   Worry  
  • The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

    Writing   Math   Science  
    John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.59, Cambridge University Press
  • In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

    Dark   Ugly Things   Long  
    Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

    Kindness   Giving   Needs  
    Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.152, Simon and Schuster
  • I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

    Love   Heart   Broken  
  • True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

    "Le Mystère Laïc". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1928.
  • Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

    Men   Long   Coercion  
    Barbara Ehrenreich (2011). “The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment”, p.11, Anchor
  • I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.

  • I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

    Book   Kids   People  
    Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.

    Running   Zero   Creating  
    Source: collider.com
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