Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Benioff

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.

We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.

A. S. Byatt

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.

Rodney Brooks

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.

Every time we look closer, we see surprising new things.

disappointing to say the least ... but not surprising because it is a first year.

There was nothing too surprising in what he said.

Susan Mann

It wasn't surprising because we've been way at the top for a while now.

Mark Anderson

It would be surprising if they weren't into this.

It was a long 10 years and when it was over it was surprising it was over.

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

It's not surprising there was a blunted response.

This is a very surprising turn of events.

It was a serendipitous discovery, something very surprising to us.

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

It is very surprising to me that they didn't give me these very important documents.

R. L. Stine

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Nikki Giovanni

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

Stephenie Meyer

Humans were always surprising me.

Tim Burton

It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.

Robert A. Heinlein

History is never surprising after it happens.