My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.
You have to keep surprising your audience.
We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.
With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.
It's surprising how a minor slump in sales can have a huge impact, and can actually cut so significantly into margin that the company really feels it.
Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.
I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.
Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.
I want to show the world that there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life. . . after diagnosis
Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.
You are an endless project. . . changing, evolving, surprising.
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
History is never surprising after it happens.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS in order to be able to localize and to compete with the American GPS.
In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.