I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

I always liked different things, rare things.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

I’m always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

The Occupy movement is – it was a big surprise.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Speak low, if you speak love.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.