Top 1046 Surprising Quotes & Sayings

Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I'm older.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.

John Cena's success was the least surprising.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

Humans were always surprising me.

Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that it's surprising. It's surprising still, when someone looks kind of askance to see me walking towards them.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

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

It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

It's a little surprising to me that I'm the first Houstonian to be an astronaut.

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

I love surprising the fans.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

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

What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

I think scrin writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing. And certainly there's inspiration that comes out of that.

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

When people watch 'Power' and they find out the showrunner is black, it's not surprising. What is surprising is that I am a woman and my background is not particularly urban.

I like clothes that feel fresh and surprising.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it's not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You'll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

For me winning isn`t surprising at all

Success and failure are equally surprising.

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

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

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

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

History is never surprising after it happens.

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

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

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

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

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

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

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

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

Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.

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

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.