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The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past. Will Self

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

Andrew Cuomo

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

John Dyer

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

Pieter Zeeman

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.

Ron Howard

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Loretta Lynn

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

Moira Kelly

Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.

Reid Hoffman

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

Jeff Probst

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person.

Christopher Parker

Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.

Vincent Nichols

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

Chris Patten

When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.

Dominique Moceanu

My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.

Thalia

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.

John Engler

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Mary Wesley

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Bob Barker

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Stanley Schmidt

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Orson Scott Card

When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.

David Sanborn

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

Rob Zombie

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

Keri Russell

Nothing surprises me about the Lords.

Christopher Monckton

My love can't be purchased... Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.

Nina Dobrev

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

Mario Balotelli

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Carine Roitfeld

I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

Lisa Edelstein

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Simon Kuznets

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

Freya Stark

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Lance Henriksen

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

Barun Sobti

From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!

Alysia Reiner

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

John Sexton

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lawrence Wright