Gene Wilder
Actor, comedian
"Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous."
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Surprise
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Aldo Rossi
Architect
"What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state."
Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything"
George Sand
Novelist, Memoirist
"Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views."
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"Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts."
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"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."
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"That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration."
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"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."
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"Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday."
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"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life"
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"Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'."
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"Art must take reality by surprise."
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"Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena."
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"The marvelous thing about lack of planning is that failure comes as a complete and utter surprise."
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"Creativity is a continual surprise."
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"The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us."
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"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
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"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."
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"Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right."
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"The best surprise is no surprise."
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"When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value ."
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"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
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"It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise."
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"Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises."
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