#surprise

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#enjoy #moments #seize #surprise #take

Surprise is key in all art. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#key #surprise

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— William James

#between #companionship #joyousness #life #need

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#constantly #face #fall #find #going

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#honestly #i #me #pop #script

I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#close #first #game #i #i think

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#i #life #me #my life #overnight

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#century #exhaustion #experienced #first #forgetting

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#being #believe #bin #close #destruction

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#cook #covered #fat #into #less