Surprising Quotes

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

Golf is said to be an humbling game, but it is surprising how many people are either not aware of their weaknesses of else reckless of consequences.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

Because we all know one of the main factors of war is the element of surprise. And what could be more surprising than the First Batallion Transvestite Brigade? Airborne Wing.

Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

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

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

How you behave in one place, will help in surprising ways later.

Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

The key to finding your remarkability is to think about what makes you surprising, interesting, or novel.

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

History is never surprising after it happens.

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.