#surprise

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#brand #challenges #everyday #job #more

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#discovery #fake #genuine #must #pretend

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affection #certain #day #enormous #every

Nothing surprises me about the Lords. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#lords #me #nothing #surprises

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#boy #clever #could #express #far

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#come #country #decade #ethics #given

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#down #giggle #great #here #humour

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#doing #easy #easy thing #element #i

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. ↗

— Holly Near

#being #hurt #part #shocked #surprised