Top 1200 Surprising Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

I think my job is to deliver the best, most cinematic, rich, exciting, surprising and emotional version of 'Camelot.'

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

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

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.

But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

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

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

The surprising question we get is, 'How many people telecommute at Google?' And our answer is, 'As few as possible.'

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

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

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

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.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

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

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

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

Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

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

I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

It's surprising how a minor slump in sales can have a huge impact, and can actually cut so significantly into margin that the company really feels it.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.

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

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.

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

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

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

It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.

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.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

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

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

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

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

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

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. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.

Drogba is certainly one of the best strikers in the world and has gone to Galatasaray after his experience in China, with the desire to keep surprising.

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

What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

Sweetcorn, mushy peas, beans, lentils, are all basic staples that can be thrown together into a variety of surprising meals.

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'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.

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.