I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

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

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.

Modern technology gives us surprising glimpses into human development. It helps us plan for and celebrate new life.

The movement toward choosing religion, rampant as it is, shouldn't be surprising. Ours is an era marked by the desire to define - or redefine - ourselves.

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.