Surprising Quotes

507 Surprising quotes by 449 unique authors

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost… — Lewis Thomas
For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit… — Marlo Thomas
It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work. — Jimmy Wales
It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves. — Bill Watterson
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. — Bradley Whitford
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in… — Pharrell Williams
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see… — Henry B. Eyring
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as… — Mark Helprin
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment… — Orhan Pamuk
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. — Orhan Pamuk
The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking… — Banksy
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that… — Paul Valery
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or… — Lloyd Jones
We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether… — Dalai Lama
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people.… — Franz Kafka
Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? — Robert Jordan
Everything is surprising, rightly seen. — A. S. Byatt
Inspiration is always a surprising visitor. — John O'Donohue
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
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… — George Sand
Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say… — Samuel R. Delany
If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing… — Jeff Kinney
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… — Charles Baudelaire
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything,… — Charles Baudelaire

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