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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn't surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing.
I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.
I don't believe in rankings. Sometimes the rankings surprise me. I don't think it's fair to judge a team on the basis of rankings.
The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
When you get lots of players up front, sometimes a counter-attack can take you by surprise and lead to a chance for the opposition.
'Sopranos' was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I'm learning the craft.
Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
I never feel like I've done anything. Swear to God. I'm not kidding. So it's always a surprise when somebody asks me to do anything.
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.
It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.
The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
I hate my birthday. I don't like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better.
A lot of people say I am not tall and I am small guy. But I jump very high. I surprise a lot of people when I go for the corner kicks.
My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.
I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.
I don't want to put myself in any bracket. I will do whatever makes me jump out of my bed. I want to surprise myself and the audience.
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.
Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that very reason.
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.
Harry Kane, for example, is a really physical striker but also really skilful. He surprises lot of defenders, but he won't surprise me.
In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.
I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.
You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.