Surprising Quotes

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

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

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you.

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

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

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.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

You are an endless project...changing, evolving, surprising.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

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.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew who's pugnacious is a reality. I grew up around it. And I think it's really, really funny and surprising and unlikely.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

I always like to be a step ahead of the audience by surprising them and the best way to do that is to not hold back.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty

The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.