#surprising

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. ↗

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#considering #hardly #i #keep #place

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#attend #few #i #just #me

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #better #granted #i #just

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#sort #surprising #think #unknown #wonderful

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#arabia #defies #easy #like #lot

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#cost #effective #leadership #look #low

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#begin #concentrate #hardly #instead #look

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#i #life #much #my life #practical