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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
Rita Dove
Life
Me
Amazing
Will
Thought
My Life
Nothing
Another
Least
Surprise
Quite
After
Happened
Much
Pulitzer
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
Tears
Writer
Reader
Surprise
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Ross MacDonald
Backward
Run
Detective
Entire
Structure
Through
Surprise
Tragic
Up
Vibrations
Which
Should
Novel
Set
If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.
Ryan Holiday
Moving On
Time
You
Three
Miserable
Big
Every
Every Time
Constant
Something
Only
Attempt
Attempts
Accepting
Occurs
Surprise
Unexpected
Going
Whenever
Moving
Much
Each
Harder
Harder Time
Four
Two
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
Vaclav Havel
Events
Ways
Spirit
Slumber
Know
None
Surprise
Which
Us
Population
Right
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos
Art
Best
Heart
Nice
Seem
Blend
Surprise
Prediction
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
Salman Rushdie
Like
Surprise
Huge
Behave
Bigots
It was a bit of a surprise when the national captaincy came my way.
AB de Villiers
National
Way
Bit
Came
Surprise
I always think back to that first night in Brooklyn, where I debuted, and it was this total surprise. I just remember thinking, 'I hope they care. I hope they remember me.' The way they embraced me that night, I knew it was the start of something special.
Adam Cole
Hope
Me
Remember
Care
First
Think
Thinking
Back
Way
Brooklyn
Embraced
Total
Something
Something Special
Remember Me
Knew
Always
Surprise
Just
Where
Special
Start
Night
Bitcoin and the block chain enables a whole new way to incentivize and transact, so change the world with this new tool. Create and build! Surprise us with an idea we have never seen before.
Adam Draper
Change
World
Bitcoin
Seen
Build
Before
Change The World
Tool
Way
Never
Idea
New
Enables
Block
Surprise
New Way
Us
Create
Whole
Chain
Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
Adam Grant
Work
Me
Book
Tried
Insight
Intuitive
Magician
Counter
Study
Powerful
Reveals
How
Surprise
Unexpected
Taught
Being
Story
Turns
Your
Each
Element
Beliefs
Twist
I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay.
Adam Lambert
Gay
Think
Surprise
Hear
Anyone
Should
I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Always
Surprise
Successful
Element
That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.
Alan Stern
Binary
Community
Research
Real
Came
Surprise
Exist
Many
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
Alan Thicke
Funny
You
Heart
Will
Funny Stuff
Kid
Anecdotes
Kinds
Some
About
Fact
Lighten
Combination
Stuff
Advised
Passages
Accompanied
Surprise
Celebrity
Just
Break
Your
Therapy
Based
Things
Medically
Load
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
Alejandro Amenabar
Me
Change
Controlling
Say
Tell
Exactly
Exactly What
Some
Instance
Talk
Because
Surprise
Encourage
Verses
Very
Person
Want
Script
Them
Even
Actor
Need
I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.
Alesha Dixon
Character
You
Think
Definitely
Out
See
True
True Character
Coming
Tested
Surprise
Situations
Human
Where
Human Beings
Themselves
Your
Beings
The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.
Alessandra Ambrosio
Saying
Picture
Year
Same Thing
Twitter
Everybody
Guess
Secret
Say
Backstage
Runway
Mention
Take
Put
Like
Until
Doing
Surprise
Did
Same
Little
Show
Tweet
Even
Keep
Thing
Designers
Last
Last Year
With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.
Alex Lifeson
Myself
Too
Solos
Like
Surprise
Going
Prepared
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
Alice Meynell
Travel
Memory
Strong
Angel
Seen
Accidents
Own
Breath
Once
Abide
Spirit
Entire
Habits
Name
Surprise
Dominant
Where
Subtlety
Place
On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world.
Alistair Horne
War
Morning
CIA
World
Rest
States
Broke
Arab
Out
Kissinger
Attack
Taken
Between
Israel
October
Surprise
Were
Asleep
Coalition
I'm teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books.
Allan Guthrie
Me
People
Sometimes
Meet
Books
Characters
Vegetarian
Surprise
Expecting
Which
Who
Resemble
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
Losing
Guilt
Okay
Possibility
Out
Minutes
About
Through
Felt
Without
Making
Surprise
Were
Surprises
His
Surprising
Years
Died
Dying
After
Then
Eulogy
Moment
Many
Moments
Dad
Found
I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
Amaury Nolasco
Love
Out
Kind
Find
Guy
More
Am
Go
Surprise
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
Amy Bloom
Me
You
Experience
Few
Paragraphs
Poem
Come
Surprise
Short
Breadth
Short Story
Story
Depth
Novel
Last
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
Ana Ivanovic
Education
Me
Parents
Further
Kind
Athlete
Both
Through
Became
Go
Surprise
Intellectual
Very
Expected
Themselves
Much
University
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