“It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.” StillsCan DoRealizingAbilityWonderBeautySelf AwarenessSurpriseForgottenSelf DiscoveryGreat Things Book:American Beauty: The Shooting Script Source: American Beauty: The Shooting Script
“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.” KnowsWritingSometimesPlayFeelingsBeautifulMovingLife IsBeautyToo MuchTearsStrangeSurpriseHandleDo You KnowUnpredictable Author:Mark Oliver Everett
“We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.” BeautifulBeautySurpriseNovelty Book:Mr. Maugham Himself Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.” WorldTryingCitiesBeautyMissingNew YorkCompetitionSurpriseSouthNew York CityCarolinaSouth CarolinaPageantBeauty Pageant Author:Donna Rice Hughes
“Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.” NaturalBeautySurpriseLandscapeVisualsSighCaribbean Book:What the Twilight Says: Essays Source: What the Twilight Says: Essays
“Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.” GivingArtStoriesSongPleasureBeautyMysterySolutionsSurpriseSurfaceInnocenceRevelationsAestheticPuzzlesConcealedCatharsis Author:Stephen Sondheim