#surprise

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#american culture #culture #disappointed #i #surprised

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#concentrated #fact #find #fundamental #ideas

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#eastern #huh #i #love #love story

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all. ↗

— James Stewart

#best #best friend #caught #dated #especially

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind. ↗

— Ward Churchill

#countries #impose #kill #kind #order

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. ↗

— Che Guevara

#arms #battle #cry #death #ear

Art must take reality by surprise. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#must #reality #surprise #take

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #buy #consistently #drop #fans

What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; something unexpected in a usual place (our favorite aunt in our favorite poker parlor) or something usual in an unexpected place (our favorite poker in our favorite aunt). I knew that my sampler was absolutely right in Elsie Norris's front room, but absolutely wrong in Mrs. Virtue's sewing class. Mrs. Virtue should either have had the imagination to commend me for my effort in context, or the farsightedness to realize there is a debate going on as to whether something has an absolute as well as a relative value; given that, she should have given me the benefit of the doubt. As it was, she got upset and blamed me for her headache. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe. ↗

— Billy Zane

#confirm #day #every #every day #inherent