Small Surprises Quotes

#1. Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

Maria Semple

#2. I'll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That's my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...

Paul Russell

#3. Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

Lynne Cheney

#4. 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

#5. How was I supposed to know 'lucked out' means 'I got screwed over' in Australian?

Elle Lothlorien

#6. It surprises me, how a small gesture can feel so very big. How sometimes you don't realize the nervousness or sadness you were holding deep inside until the touch of someone you love lets it all out of you, like your entire body is exhaling.

Lucy Keating

#7. Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Judith Guest

#8. I cannot simply abandon a comrade

Sawada Tsunayoshi

#9. Finally I began to get angry. I wanted to make someone pay. I wanted to strike back at the world and make the world know I was alive.

Stephen King

#10. I can't wear yellow anymore. It's too matchy-matchy with my catheter.

Joan Rivers

#11. - "What is reality?"
- "One of the many possible illusions.

Robert Sheckley

#12. It is evil to keep these people in bondage, yet they cannot be freed. They must be educated! To free these people without education and with the prejudice that presently exists against them would be a ghastly crime.

William Styron

#13. Tell me again how great you are, asshole. Nothing like a steel enema to ruin even your best day. (Fang)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. It is not the thunder that makes the flowers grow ...

Jury Nel

#15. I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!

Louise Hay

#16. She took his finger and placed a small kiss on the end of it. "You're just full of surprises, Taggart." She saw him give her a very pleased male smile.
"Stick around, Darlin', there's more to me than meets your eyes."
"Should I be afraid?

Lindsay McKenna

#17. Miss Prendregast!" He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. "You were never in any danger!"
"Except from the wild animals."
His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. "Alert me if you're attacked by a rabbit.

Christina Dodd