Surprising Quotes

507 Surprising quotes by 449 unique authors

You have to keep surprising your audience. — Shane Black
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. — Deidre Hall
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Michel Foucault
It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. — Stephen Crane
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… — Saul Bellow
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. — Aimee Bender
Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you… — Stephen R. Donaldson
Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am. — Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that… — Unknown Author
The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and… — Richard Alley
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not… — Bernard Haisch
Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life. — Lucy Fry
There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Unknown Author
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -… — Henry David Thoreau
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only… — Seamus Heaney
It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the… — Gillian Flynn
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. — Tracy Chevalier
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose. — William Zinsser
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me, — Stanley Hauerwas
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the… — Fanny Burney
Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them — Richie Sambora
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it. — Cheryl Strayed

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