Surprising Quotes

To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

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.

A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

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

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

What people might find surprising: I taught my wife to change diapers when we had our first.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

I do think it [the Waitress] speaks in a positive way for women and it was surprising for me to see it for the first time as a movie all put together with music. I really liked it a lot.

I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.

Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.

It's surprising to a lot of people because ballerinas look so long, but it's more of a proportion thing. Their legs are long in proportion to their body but in reality they're very tiny.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.

It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS in order to be able to localize and to compete with the American GPS.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation.

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.