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Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.
We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it's too late.
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!
My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.
I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.
Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'
Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
That always catches you by surprise, you know, the amount of inspiration, should you choose to, that you can give to people.
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.
After 'Jewel In the Crown,' I hardly worked at all for about six months - which came as a bit of a surprise, I have to admit.
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
It's awesome to have the fans come up and say, 'Hey, Duck, what's up?' When people call me Devlin, it catches me by surprise.
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.
A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.
So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.
I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.
With writing music, as a general rule I'm looking for something that surprises me, that doesn't fall within what's easy for me.
Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.
Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
I always liked to put on a tie. The more you look like an executive, the better treated you are. It catches people by surprise.
The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.
Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.
People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.