---
title: "7 Things Surprising Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Things Surprising quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Things Surprising sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/elizabeth-hickey-95693_surprising_to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-hav_271720.jpg"
---

> [“To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hickey/to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-have-to-extend-yourself-a-bit/)

[Elizabeth Hickey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hickey/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/elizabeth-hickey-95693_surprising_to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-hav_271720.jpg)

> [I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachele-brooke-smith/i-love-to-make-people-laugh-and-do-things-that-are-surprising-and/)

[Rachele Brooke Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachele-brooke-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/rachele-brooke-smith-16329_comedy_i-love-to-make-people-laugh-and-do-thing_272999.jpg)

> [With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/with-respect-to-duels-indeed-i-have-my-own-ideas-few-things-in-this/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/thomas-carlyle-207_air_with-respect-to-duels-indeed-i-have-my-o_707501.jpg)

> [For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-foreman/for-me-even-if-i-m-not-a-fan-of-the-band-in-general-or-maybe-it-s-not/)

[Jon Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-foreman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/jon-foreman-2854_band_for-me-even-if-i-m-not-a-fan-of-the-band_1029979.jpg)

> [“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-sudjic/i-found-it-hard-to-write-the-bits-where-the-things-that-were-at-first/)

[Olivia Sudjic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-sudjic/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/olivia-sudjic-5411_mental-illness_i-found-it-hard-to-write-the-bits-where_1988844.jpg)

> [I like to do things that are surprising and different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudy-rucker/i-like-to-do-things-that-are-surprising-and-different/)

[Rudy Rucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudy-rucker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/rudy-rucker-12413_different_i-like-to-do-things-that-are-surprising_2349485.jpg)

> [In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/in-this-dark-world-where-he-now-dwelt-ugly-things-and-surprising/)

[Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/philip-k-dick-502_dark_in-this-dark-world-where-he-now-dwelt-ug_3103907.jpg)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/#itemlist",
            "name": "Things Surprising Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 7,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Elizabeth Hickey"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hickey/to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-have-to-extend-yourself-a-bit/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/elizabeth-hickey-95693_surprising_to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-hav_271720.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/elizabeth-hickey-95693_surprising_to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-hav_271720.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/elizabeth-hickey-95693_surprising_to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-hav_271720.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.” — Elizabeth Hickey",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Rachele Brooke Smith"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachele-brooke-smith/i-love-to-make-people-laugh-and-do-things-that-are-surprising-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/rachele-brooke-smith-16329_comedy_i-love-to-make-people-laugh-and-do-thing_272999.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/rachele-brooke-smith-16329_comedy_i-love-to-make-people-laugh-and-do-thing_272999.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/rachele-brooke-smith-16329_comedy_i-love-to-make-people-laugh-and-do-thing_272999.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.” — Rachele Brooke Smith",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "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!",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Thomas Carlyle"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/with-respect-to-duels-indeed-i-have-my-own-ideas-few-things-in-this/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/thomas-carlyle-207_air_with-respect-to-duels-indeed-i-have-my-o_707501.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/thomas-carlyle-207_air_with-respect-to-duels-indeed-i-have-my-o_707501.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ac/thomas-carlyle-207_air_with-respect-to-duels-indeed-i-have-my-o_707501.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with…” — Thomas Carlyle",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jon Foreman"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-foreman/for-me-even-if-i-m-not-a-fan-of-the-band-in-general-or-maybe-it-s-not/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/jon-foreman-2854_band_for-me-even-if-i-m-not-a-fan-of-the-band_1029979.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/jon-foreman-2854_band_for-me-even-if-i-m-not-a-fan-of-the-band_1029979.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/jon-foreman-2854_band_for-me-even-if-i-m-not-a-fan-of-the-band_1029979.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on…” — Jon Foreman",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Olivia Sudjic"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-sudjic/i-found-it-hard-to-write-the-bits-where-the-things-that-were-at-first/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/olivia-sudjic-5411_mental-illness_i-found-it-hard-to-write-the-bits-where_1988844.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/olivia-sudjic-5411_mental-illness_i-found-it-hard-to-write-the-bits-where_1988844.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/olivia-sudjic-5411_mental-illness_i-found-it-hard-to-write-the-bits-where_1988844.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became…” — Olivia Sudjic",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I like to do things that are surprising and different.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Rudy Rucker"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudy-rucker/i-like-to-do-things-that-are-surprising-and-different/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/rudy-rucker-12413_different_i-like-to-do-things-that-are-surprising_2349485.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/rudy-rucker-12413_different_i-like-to-do-things-that-are-surprising_2349485.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/rudy-rucker-12413_different_i-like-to-do-things-that-are-surprising_2349485.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I like to do things that are surprising and different.” — Rudy Rucker",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Philip K. Dick"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/in-this-dark-world-where-he-now-dwelt-ugly-things-and-surprising/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/philip-k-dick-502_dark_in-this-dark-world-where-he-now-dwelt-ug_3103907.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/philip-k-dick-502_dark_in-this-dark-world-where-he-now-dwelt-ug_3103907.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/philip-k-dick-502_dark_in-this-dark-world-where-he-now-dwelt-ug_3103907.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny…” — Philip K. Dick",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/",
            "name": "Things Surprising Quotes",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/elizabeth-hickey-95693_surprising_to-see-things-in-surprising-ways-you-hav_271720.jpg"
            },
            "description": "Browse 7 Things Surprising quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Things Surprising sayings and thoughts.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Things Surprising Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-surprising/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```