Quoted in The Grove: surprise
One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
~Orson Scott Card
The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
~Jeff Probst
If you are ready for the bad surprises, then you are ready to reach the unreachable places!
~Mehmet
EndQuote:
Life is made up of marble and mud.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Exercise Prompt for 02/28: science
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All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown – even when we don’t want to and we think we don’t need to.
~Paulo Coelho
Be unprepared, that’s my motto. Let life surprise you.
~Marty Rubin
Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.
~Arielle Dombasle
The exciting part of acting, I don’t know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
~Tom Cruise
Most people want to be circled by safety, not by the unexpected. The unexpected can take you out. But the unexpected can also take you over and change your life. Put a heart in your body where a stone used to be.
~Ron Hall
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I think there’s a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that’s what surprises are.
~Gina Carano
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
~Bill Watterson
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Posted from the Grove
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
~Josh Billings
The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!
~Mehmet Murat ildan
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
~Marcus Aurelius
I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
~Bernard Beckett
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
~Jane Austen
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A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
~Edward Albee
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don’t ever have in my world is surprise.
~Nancy Pelosi
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
~Maya Angelou
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I’m just not built for fairytale surprises.
~Karen Tayleur
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~Etisalat: Moonwalk (1:09) surprise in the guise of accidents with commercial value
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/421439852
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~Every Noise At Once: Every music style imaginable, available
Is it a toy or research tool?
https://everynoise.com
Thx Rusty
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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
~John Harvey-Jones
Unless you are prepared to expect the unexpected, be prepared to expect the unexpected defeat.
~Anirudh Sethi
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
~James P Carse
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There can never be surprises in logic.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
High IQ individuals don’t like surprises and are pessimistic, because it’s logical.
~Walter O’Brien
I’m not making any plans. I’m just going to let the universe surprise me.
~John Cusack
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VIDEO:
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.
~Stonewall Jackson
Surprise is the mother of panic.
~Nick Murray
Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
~John Paul Jones
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
~Carl von Clausewitz
Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and know your adversary.
~Georges St-Pierre
To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, “surprise” is the optimistic solution.
~Amit Kalantri
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Though times have changed, it’s a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
~Cat Stevens
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
~Rebecca Solnit
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
~Nick Flynn
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When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that’s when they are really in for their biggest surprise.
~Donald Trump
Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.
~David Remnick
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
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
~Irwin Shaw
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~Omeleto: The Beach House (9:58) mixed signals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuF29_Sv81Y
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~Melnitsa Animation: The God & The Fly (4:17) distractions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-hYq3Y9IoU
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It’s most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
~Stanley Schmidt
Oh, that is the surprise. It’s so lovely, I pity you because you don’t know it…
~Louisa May Alcott
Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.
~Brownell Landrum
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.
~David Byrne
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
~Gordon Gee
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MUSIC:
I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There’s a surprise element, and you don’t know what it will be, and it’s up to that other person’s energy to help create this third thing. ~Bat for Lashes
People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
~Brian Eno
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
~Rob Sheffield
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
~Damon Galgut
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The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren’t looking for it.
~Sarra Manning
You never fall in love by yourself, love captures you. Love comes to you when you don’t need it really, and it comes to an end when you need it the most.
~Farah Mustafa
Love was destined and would strike as true as unexpected lightning on a clear day or never come at all.
~Dean Francis Alfar
The process of love sometimes means unexpected detours.
~Elizabeth Alraune
Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.
~Kate McGahan
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~Radiohead with PMJ: No Surprises, feat. Chloe Feoranzo (4:02) angsty, gently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upb2m2JTGGA&feature
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~Lulu & The Luvvers: Surprise (2:17) testing tolerance for nostalgia
https://vimeo.com/12032295
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~Bruce Springsteen: Surprise Surprise (3:24) playful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e7gG6yGhp4
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~Dinah Washington: Surprise Party (2:39) double cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QwbzUFQrDk
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~Celine Dion: Surprise, Surprise (1:47) confessional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0DWGqk8So
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The fear of burglars in not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
~Crowds and Power
There are two kinds of people in crisis situations – those who fight and those who freeze. I’m a freezer, and that’s just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I’ve had thrown for me.
~Cobie Smulders
You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don’t think most of us do.
~Jincy Willett
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
~Jimmy Buffett
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I love the silver of your gold
I love the gentle of your day
I love the unexpected tender of your way
I even love the sudden winters of your May
~Cilla Black
The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.
~Paul Scott
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
~Wallace Stevens
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God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it’ll take us next.
~Carrie Underwood
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
~Boris Pasternak
Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.
~Tierney Gearon
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All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.
~Criss Jami
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
~Joyce Carol Oates
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
~Charles Baudelaire
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estate by moonlight
garden warden
surprise by night
dayscare nightmare
sudden fright
forbidden fruit
in shadows hidden
rape in progress
scream of rage
then the light’s on
and I’ve attacked
a marble nude
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Occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I’ll fall in love with them, so go figure.
~Mark Oliver Everett
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
~Charles Morgan
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Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.
~Deborah Meaden
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
~Alexis Sanchez
No matter who you think you are; there is always another version waiting to show up.
~Bindu Madhav Tata
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~George S Patton
I guess that’s just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.
~Stephanie Kwolek
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Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.
~Margaret E Barber
I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don’t pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life’s course is right on track.
~Jason Mraz
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My love can’t be purchased… Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.
~Nina Dobrev
And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I’m taking you on a surprise date, you don’t know where you are going and you can’t see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.
~Emily Watson
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What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~Ellen Burstyn
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it’s not such a bad thing.
~Boy George
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Maybe I don’t like people as much as the rest of the world seems to…But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I’ll fall in love with them, so go figure.
~Mark Oliver Everett
Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
~Alice Munro
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
~Agatha Christie
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn’t write them again, and wouldn’t want to.
~Jean Rostand
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
~Elizabeth Strout
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@Writers Platform
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
~Robert Frost
Surprise is key in all art.
~Oscar Niemeyer
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
~Wendy Carlos
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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
~Chuck Palahniuk
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
~Alison Lurie
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
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The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself.
~Robert Henri
What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.
~Marty Rubin
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer’s hand.
~Steven Amsterdam
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
~Wilson Mizner
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Exercise Prompt: surprise
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Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
~Lawrence Block
An unexpected gift, at an unexpected time, that keeps the lawyers away. And it’s easy to take forever for granted, with tin cans tied to your car. And I know she tells you that she’ll always be there, but I’m telling you if you’re smart, You’ll love her like she’s leaving, like it’s all gonna end, if you don’t.
~Brad Paisley
I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don’t pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life’s course is right on track.
~Jason Mraz
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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
~Lionel Blue
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 pleasant waters for our old age.
~Freya Stark
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The Exercise:
~BarTalk:
dual doggerels dueling #21
rumination
too soon old age
the surprise of one’s life
now maintenance work
at best
slim-waisted youth
wasted on the young
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by the #s
aged wisdom praised
a mere synonym for:
2 old, 2 tired, 2 slow 2 sin
worth the price 4
the weight and press of flesh
what the wait was 4
surprise! with relish
I 8 her
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end of a romance
of a sudden, silence
a surprise
a peace before the violence
the quiet before defiance
paralyzed by threats and lies
the day a dream begins to die
disenfranchise, vote’s demise
love on display at Valentines
another bullet to their ballot
to brotherhood, all men equal
for love of Lady Liberty Bell
admired beauty to market vamp
stripped of shame and shining lamp
stars and stripes gone oddly limp
pushed aside outside her shrine
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
~W Somerset Maugham
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
~Alan Turing
I always liked to put on a tie. The more you look like an executive, the better treated you are. It catches people by surprise.
~Don Wright
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
~Heywood Broun
Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
~James Huneker
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
~Lewis Thomas
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
~Daniel J Boorstin
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
~Rex Stout
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
~Charles Bukowski
Behold this midnight glory; worlds on worlds!
Amazing pomp! redouble this amaze
Ten thousand add; and twice ten thousand more
Then weigh the whole: one soul outweighs them all.
~Horatio Hastings Weld
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
~Billy Graham
What astonishes astonishes once, but what is admirable is more and more admired.
~Joseph Joubert
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
~Mae West
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We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
~Richard Schiff
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.
~Vera Nazarian
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That’s one of the greatest things about life, its wonderful surprises.
~Marlo Thomas
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~Ashley Montagu
What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.
~Damian Kulash
Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed.
~Brandon Hull
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