“May your season shine with delight and surprise.” MayBlessingSeasonsShiningSurpriseDelight Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.” KnowsMayIdeasStatesHelpingAmericaLawRaceIssuesMastersIdealsBlueSurpriseGermanyNaziReproductionEugenicsSelectiveNazi GermanyMein KampfBlue Eyed Author:James Morcan
“This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.” MaySchoolHigh SchoolSurpriseArrested Author:Pat Boone
“Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.” MayCertainAbilityLevelsCreativityExampleIntelligentSurpriseIntellect Author:John Cleese
“If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.” IfsKnowsMayDangerSurpriseAncestor Author:Simon Wiesenthal
“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.” IfsMindWellsMayPlayFormUsedResultsCreativeStupidSurpriseVehicleDiscoveringConventionalPedantic Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.” FirstsMayHappensThreeCoursesGamesWinningRaceWeekStageSurpriseIncrediblesSundayRetiringCommonwealthEmmaClimbersRosaLining UpCommonwealth Games Author:Emma Pooley
“Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.” MayHas BeensTwoStoriesFilmThreeHoursLinesWalksVisionGraceMinutesSpecialEffectsSurpriseLove StoryAdmireOriginalityPearlsHarborsDecemberStunningSpecial EffectsTrianglesBanalityLove TriangleQuotingRedundantCenterpiecesSurprise AttacksDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:Roger Ebert