Surprisingness Quotes & Sayings

The Cavern you are asking about, yes, I have seen that, with rows and rows of tubes stored neatly in the earth. I have also seen a cave full of papers, and golden apples on dark trees twisted from growing in a place with great wind and little rain, and my name carved in a tree, and paintings on stone. And in the Carving I have seen burned bodies under the sky and a man singing his daughter to her grave, marking her arms and his with blue. I have felt life in that place, and I have seen death. — Ally Condie

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie — Lauren Oliver

I was raised not to talk about money. It was considered impolite. — Jamie Johnson

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. — Cary Elwes

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege. — Howard Schultz

That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters ... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged? — Jean Sylvain Bailly

When I came to a halt by my front door I looked at my watch.
It had taken me fifteen minutes to walk around the whole village.
So it was within these fifteen minutes I was to live my whole life this coming year. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic. — Ann Rinaldi

A fermented mind - according to nothing, we are something. — Akiane Kramarik

The solution is commitment to whatever is in front of you;
Because
It's not always what you wanna do but the options in front of you — Bandile Matsenjwa

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness. — Gail Sheehy