I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.
Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.
Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.
No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt
Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.
There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.
I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. And then you can really surprise yourself. There's that cliche, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!"
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. . . . what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
The best surprise is no surprise.
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.